Public Finance

International Financial Institutions (IFIs) use public money to undertake or support investments in other countries. There are two kinds: multilateral development banks and export credit agencies. The mission of most IFIs is 'poverty alleviation'. But loans from IFIs have caused grave environmental and social problems for millions of people all over the world.

Friends of the Earth International exposes the role of these banks in supporting the private sector; campaigns against the privatization of public services, calls for an end to the financing of harmful fossil fuel and mining projects, strives to enhance civil society control over the institutions, and works for the recognition of ecological debt.

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The story of iirsa

new booklet: Latin American people versus mega infrastructure projects and trade negotiations with the European Union.

Friends of the Earth International, May 2008

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may 4 -6 2008, madrid: foei at adb meeting

Check out our activities with the NGO Forum on the Asian Development Bank here

Harvesting Harm: Agrofuels as a False Solution to Climate Change and Poverty

Policy Brief on the Inter- American Development Bank Agrofuels Strategy, April 2008. Download PDF

World vs bank

The World Bank Campaign Europe  organised  a Public Hearing on the World Bank under auspices of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal,  on the 15th  October 2007 in The Hague, Netherlands.  Read the declaration, order your t-shirt or get a free copy of the video and watch the trailer. 

stop water privatization

Civil society organizations from around the world met on 22-23 May 2007 to learn more about the World Bank's Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, and to demand donors put an end to the water privatization promotion by this controversial  organisation. Read more  or watch the video of our action

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• Publication - the cao in peru : lessons learned from dialogue as a strategy to reduce conflict
• Sakhalin II and BTC driving increased prostitution, human trafficking and HIV/AIDS
• Friends of the Earth at the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank

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