Online Event: Fighting off vulture finance in the Asia Pacific
On 22 May 2025, come join GRAIN and the Resisting Pension Fund Capitalism project as we discuss the alarming expansion of predatory finance in the Asia Pacific region. The meeting, hosted by Public Services International, will focus on the impacts that private equity firms, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds have on workers, food systems and public services, and what can be done to challenge their growing power.
Date: Thursday May 22, 2025, 12h30 Delhi / 14h Jakarta / 17h Sydney
Presentations will include:
CICTAR on private equity’s impacts on health care and energy services
GRAIN on general trends of financialisation and implications for the region’s food systems
IBON Foundation on the Maharlika Fund— an SWF launched in the Philippines targeting mining and agriculture
Indonesian power workers union PP-IP on resistance to the privatisation agenda behind the “green energy transition”
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