Gold Industry Blocking IMF Debt Cancellation
Newmont Mining Co. is leading industry opposition to plans to finance IMF debt cancellation through sales of its gold reserves.Fact Sheets:
- How Structural Adjustment worsens poverty
- How the IMF helped create and worsen the Asian financial crisis
- The IMF, the World Bank, and the HIV/AIDS crisis
- How Structural Adjustment Destroys the Environment
- How the IMF Bails Out Big Banks
- How Structural Adjustment Hurts Workers
- The IMF and World Bank's Sham Debt Relief
Resources:
- Proposals for World Bank/IMF Reform - A Civil Society Coalition Report. (.pdf)
- Private Sector Development Strategy: Directions for the World Bank Group
- Demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice and helpful links
- Join the STOP-IMF listserve
- View and search the STOP-IMF list serve archives from 1998 and 1999 and from 2000 and 2001
- Letter to Secretary Rubin from Ralph Nader and Robert Weissman [12/30/97]
- 1997 and 1998 news clips shows that the consensus builds against IMF austerity
Related Links:
- Mobilization for Global Justice
- 50 Years Is Enough Network
- Friends of the Earth's Greening International Financial Institutions Campaign
- Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
- Economic Policy Institute
- Jobs With Justice
- Global Exchange's World Bank and IMF pages
- World Bank Bonds Boycott (Center for Economic Justice)
- The International Monetary Fund
- The World Bank