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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 […]

Questioning the Scottish government’s approach to Private Finance

February 10, 2020 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

questions for holyrood

The launch of our report Last month at the Scottish Parliament we launched our report ‘Rethinking Private Financing’, the culmination of work from Jubilee Scotland over the past year researching PPP & PFI schemes. You can download and read it here. The launch was hosted by Neil Findlay MSP, who spoke to us about how […]

It’s time for a Scottish National Investment Bank

February 1, 2017 By Jubilee Scotland 1 Comment

This article was written by Laurie Macfarlane from New Economics Foundation.  Investment – both by the private sector and by government – is crucial to the long term economic, social and environmental health of any economy. As part of the UK, Scotland has a longstanding problem of underinvestment relative to other countries. The percentage of GDP invested in […]

LOBO Loans a Low-Blow to Struggling Local Authorities

November 18, 2016 By Alasdair Johnston 1 Comment

This week has been awash with news on the Scottish debt problem. Put simply every year Scottish Local Authorities are forced to allocate on average 42% of their income from council tax to servicing debts, many of them procured since 2008. The problem is not that local authorities have been borrowing to finance large scale […]

Scotland 2013 and Beyond

May 21, 2013 By Jubilee Scotland Leave a Comment

A platform to discuss the key guiding principles and values that should shape Scotland’s international development role. By Alice Picard, Jubilee Scotland Volunteer (All posts are the views of the author, not Jubilee Scotland as an organisation) “Scotland 2013 and Beyond: Our values and principles for a just world” was organised by NIDOS, Network of […]

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Jubilee Scotland and Global Justice Now Protest in the Heart of Edinburgh

Jubilee Scotland and Global Justice Now joined forces last week to ask BlackRock to cancel or suspend debts between them and Zambia as the country struggles to fund healthcare and education for the Zambian people whilst BlackRock are set to make 110% profit.  The two organisations came together to create a BlackRock pinata that was […]

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