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(Not) everything is a commodity. The finance takover of the tourism sector

emma7 de November de 201922 de December de 2021

Tourism in our cities belongs increasingly to international investors and responds to growing speculative interests with a financialisation logic. The consequences for neighbours are obvious:

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as tools for privatisation

emma10 de October de 201922 de December de 2021

The ODG report “Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as tools for privatisation” is a three-part publication that makes an x-ray of the legal framework of PPP contracts

Who Owns All The Pipelines?

emma10 de September de 201912 de September de 2019

A look at Europe’s 4 biggest gas transport companies: Fluxys, Enagás, GRTgaz and Snam Why is the EU still building new and unnecessary gas pipelines

Tourism: the false fix – concentration of profits and social debt

emma22 de February de 201929 de April de 2019

This ODG research starts to look at the relationship of debt and financialisation with tourism, and how they act though this industry, that is deeply affecting

The risks of Public-Private Partnerships: the case of Renace in Guatemala

emma6 de February de 201921 de May de 2020

New report of the Debt Observatory on Globalisation (ODG) describes how Renace was implemented and what risks this PPP project implies in Guatemala. The construction

History RePPPeated: How public private partnerships are failing

Maadix28 de November de 20185 de December de 2018

From the complete failure of the Castor Project in Spain, to an overpriced hospital in Sweden, projects financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) make

MythCat

emma30 de May de 20187 de February de 2019

For more than a decade, Enagás (in Spain) and Teréga, ex-TIGF, (in France) have been promoting the construction of the Midi-Catalunya pipeline (better known as

Is Natural Gas a Friend of the Climate?

emma8 de May de 20183 de February de 2019

The general objective of this study is to evaluate the climate impacts of the gas supply chain: in particular, those associated with liquefied natural gas

Smoke and Mirrors

emma30 de January de 20187 de February de 2019

The study shutters EU claims on climate benefits from flagship energy project; the Southern Gas Corridor. The controversial Southern Gas Corridor, the EU’s flagship energy

Mega-infrastructure as a mechanism of indebtedness

emma18 de January de 20183 de February de 2019

ODG’s publication “Mega-infrastructure as a mechanism of indebtedness – the risk of illegitimate, ecological and gender debt” analyses the main mechanisms of indebtedness that mega-infrastructure