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To help people through the COVID-19 recession, we need to reduce the stigma around household debt

August 19, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

Household debt is an issue many are hesitant to talk about.  80% of people who owe money don’t seek help, instead hiding their financial problems from fiends and family. The concept of household debt is a consumer’s total debt within a home, which can include debt through credit cards, student loans, leases, mortgages, and business […]

A Just and Green Recovery for Scotland

June 1, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

Jubilee Scotland is part of a new campaign to Build Back Better. As we begin to recover from the devastating impacts of Coronavirus, we have a chance to transform our society for the better. The outbreak of COVID-19 has reminded us what is really important – looking after each other and our communities, our health […]

A call for a new Debt Jubilee

May 5, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

We need to assess the public health crisis that is about to explode in the Global South if debt is not outright cancelled. While most Northern countries are in the midst of fighting against the virus, the heaviest impact caused by the pandemic will be on countries in Africa, South & Latin America and Southeast […]

British aid money should not be spent on building Bridge private schools

April 27, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland 1 Comment

This past week has been a big win for people working to improve education in countries that have been plagued by Private-for-profit schools, such as Kenya, India, Ghana, Uganda and Liberia. The World Bank Group announced that its private sector division, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) would be reforming how they approach lending policy, their […]

Jubilee Scotland signs on to new debt jubilee to tackle COVID-19 in the Global South.

April 7, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

Jubilee Scotland has signed up today to a new debt jubilee to tackle the Covid-19 health and economic crisis facing hundreds of millions of people. This World Health Day, more than 150 organisations and networks have called for debt in the global south to be cancelled to fight to COVID-19 outbreak. Some of the world’s […]

The economic history of PFI – as a guide on how to end it

February 25, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

history of pfi

At our report launch last month, one of our key speakers was Helen Mercer, whose expertise on Private Finance Initiative schemes made a huge contribution to our research. She talked to us about how we got into this mess and why this is a systemic problem caused by our governments, that can only be solved […]

Dexter Whitfield recommends that Holyrood stops all MIM projects

February 11, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

We are so grateful that we were able to have Dexter Whitfield with us last month at the launch of our report, ‘Rethinking Private Financing’. The influence of his research can be seen all throughout it so it is an honour to be able to have one of the leading experts of this area come […]

Illegitimate Greek Debt

June 13, 2013 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

By Alice Picard, Jubilee Scotland Volunteer (All posts are the views of the author, not Jubilee Scotland as an organisation). I don’t know what you were up to this Tuesday 11 June 2013 but I was demonstrating in front of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Well, almost. Because despite long negotiations with the police, we never […]

Malawi’s debt relief enigma

July 14, 2008 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

What was the value of Malawi’s debt cancellation (received in September 2006)? If Malawi had received its debt relief with no hidden reductions and cuts, it would have had $101 million extra per annum free in its budget (the UK, in comparison, gave $180 million in 2006: SID, table 16.2). What it has really had […]

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