Embarrassingly for Brussels the row surfaces just days after an expert panel commissioned by the late Pope Francis and chaired by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called for a new round of debt relief for African countries to prevent a ‘perfect storm' of rising financing costs (Dispatches 23/6/25 Stiglitz panel calls for debt relief as wealthy states block African UN plan)...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- AFRICA
- DEBT
An expert panel chaired by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has called for a new round of debt relief for African countries to prevent a ‘perfect storm' of rising financing costs making it harder for them to fund healthcare and education (Vol 66 No 7 Mahama's plans clash with IMF strictures)...
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Over 300 civic activists trades unions academics and experts from across the world including economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz wrote to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ramaphosa describing the leaked text on IP waivers 'inadequate' and 'a step backwards from an already untenable status quo...
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Joseph Stiglitz a former chief economist at the World Bank says the firm's report is a hatchet job...
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Vol 62 No 6 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
At the launch of AfDB report Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz became the latest economist to call for 'comprehensive and quick restructuring' of African government debt...
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Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
- BRIEFING
There economist Joseph Stiglitz and others discussed how Japan and Africa might cooperate on industrialisation strategies financial reform land use and capital flight...
Vol 53 No 11 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Joseph Stiglitz a United States Nobel prize-winning economist has become an unlikely guru of the left wing of the governing African National Congress in its battle with the centrist nationalist and populist factions...
Vol 51 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Patel’s coup was to entice Joseph Stiglitz a Nobel prize-winner for Economics and a fierce critic of the orthodox policies Manuel followed as Finance Minister...
Joseph Stiglitz a trenchant critic of those institutions has attacked the conditionality imposed by the Fund on its lending the opaque manner in which it operates and the lack of global economic debate about its role...
It may also mean more changes in the institutions' theology and more surprises for their seasoned critics such as Joseph Stiglitz...