Covid 19
Covid 19 | Reports and Briefings
Taux d’intérêts financiers, désintérêt humain
La pandémie de Covid-19 et la crise économique ont frappé des pays pauvres déjà fragilisés par le poids d’une dette insoutenable....
No relief in sight: French private financial institutions demand debt service repayment despite the Covid crisis
Poor countries have already been weakened by unsustainable debt burden—now they are hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic...
Atlas of Vulnerability: Developing Countries and the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts developing countries worse than developed countries. When we look at the big picture, we see that...
Towards a People's Recovery: Tracking Fiscal and Social Protection Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South
The vast majority of Covid-19 recovery funds have gone to big corporations instead of toward welfare, small firms, or those...
The trillion dollar question: What difference will the IMF’s new SDRs allocation make to the world’s poorest?
The US$650 billion allocation of SDRs proposed by the IMF will not support the post-Covid economic recovery of the poorest...
‘Rebuilding better', but better for whom?
In March 2020 the World Bank Group pledged to provide US$ 160bn to client countries in the 15 months to...
A debt pandemic: Dynamics and implications of the debt crisis of 2020
Our latest briefing provides an overview of the dynamics and implications of the 2020 sovereign debt crisis. The prioritisation of...
Lessons from Covid-19 for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries
By Stamp Out Poverty and GCF Watch Global solidarity is urgently needed ensure that vulnerable developing countries have the support they need...
Covid-19: A feminist perspective
In this two-part blog to mark International Women's Day, Eurodad experts explore the impact of the pandemic from a feminist...
The Liquidity and Sustainability Facility for African sovereign bonds: who benefits?
The aim of this paper is to contribute to an informed dialogue on the most appropriate forms of development finance...
The Pandemic Papers: Reviews of Covid-19's impact on debt and development finance
In this compilation of reports and briefings released throughout 2020, we review the impact of the pandemic on debt and...
Never let a pandemic go to waste: How the World Bank’s Covid-19 response is prioritising the private sector
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered health, economic and social crises of unprecedented proportions that have the potential to seriously undermine...
IMF lending and austerity post Covid-19
Eurodad has just published a new report on the impact of the crisis in developing countries:Arrested development: International Monetary Fund lending...
Arrested Development: International Monetary Fund lending and austerity post Covid-19
A Eurodad-led review reveals insufficient and inadequate multilateral response to the Covid-19 pandemic on the part of the IMF, locking a...
Eurodad briefing looking at implications of Covid-19 on ODA issues
Official Development Assistance (ODA) could play a crucial role in tackling the immediate impacts of the coronavirus crisis and supporting...
Covid-19 and Official Development Assistance: current issues and challenges
The Covid-19 pandemic is in danger of seriously undermining the capability of developing countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...