South Africa has long faced considerable health system equity challenges. In particular, 43% of total health care expenditure is attributable to private health insurance schemes, which only cover 16% of the population. General tax funding allocated to the health...
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Dexia and bailing out the banks | by Michael Roberts
The large Belgian Bank, Dexia, went bust over last weekend. It provides a lot of pointers about the role of banking and how it fits into this crisis. Dexia was bailed out before at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Then the Belgian and French governments...
Africa’s Odious Debts | by James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana
One side effect of the American/British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes. As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited...


