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Sixteen countries will be spending more on debt than on the health of their citizens, and ten will be spending more on debt than on primary education and health combined. Oxfam is calling […] View resource Briefing note 21st Century Debt Relief 01/01/2001 1 documents 2 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief World Bank and IMF Overview Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […] View resource Journal article The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in ‘the North’…and ‘the South’ 01/08/2000 17 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt relief Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Finance World Trade Organisation WTO Overview The growing crisis of external indebtedness in the South has become the focus not only of multilateral policy debate, but also the subject of an increasingly vocal international anti-debt campaign, the influence of which was clear at the abortive World Trade Organisation at Seattle in late 1999. Though effective, the anti-debt campaign encompasses a range […] View resource Briefing paper Make Debt Relief Work: Proposals for the G7 21/07/2000 1 documents 13 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview In spite of the fanfare, progress on debt relief has been agonizingly slow. Debt servicing continues to suck resources away from the fight against poverty and contributes to child deaths more than 20 times the rate in rich countries. Countries should get immediate debt relief if they meet one condition: debt relief finance goes into […] View resource Briefing paper Drop the Debt: Go Back to First Principles: A challenge to the G7 21/07/2000 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief World Bank and IMF Overview The G7’s grand promise at Cologne – an enhanced HIPC that would deliver debt relief to 25 countries this year – has been left hanging. Only eight countries have begun to receive debt relief. IMF conditionality and an unnecessarily bureaucratic process has slowed debt relief to a trickle. Oxfam proposes a quicker, simpler way forward. View resource Briefing note Africa’s Forgotten Crises: people in peril: Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Congo 09/09/1999 1 documents 12 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Debt relief Disasters Overview This paper reviews the current emergencies, and the opportunities for peace, in five countries. Four of them fall within the fifteen poorest countries in the world. These countries are so desperately poor that war – and in Ethiopia, drought too – means they can no longer cope without much more international help. View resource Briefing paper G7 Differences Threaten to Sink Debt Relief Hopes 01/06/1999 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview On June 18th, national leaders from the world’s largest economies have an opportunity to end the debt crisis crippling many of the world’s poorest countries. But there is a real danger that current proposals within the G7 will fail to deliver. Without active, personal engagement by the G7 leaders, the Cologne summit will mark a […] View resource Briefing note Oxfam International Submission to the Heavily Indebted Poor County (HIPC) Debt Review 01/04/1999 1 documents 16 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview Three years after its inception, the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative has failed to resolve the debt crisis in the world’s poorest countries. Early promise has given way to disappointment. Without a concerted international effort to provide earlier and deeper debt relief, and to integrate debt reduction into wider poverty reduction initiatives, the HIPC […] View resource Briefing paper Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction 01/03/1999 1 documents 18 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Conflict Debt Debt relief Disasters Reconstruction Refugees and IDPs Overview Rwanda stands at a critical point in its history. The country’s people are seeking to rebuild a society shattered by war and a genocide in which one in eight Rwandans – Tutsi and Hutu opponents of the government’s extremist policies – was killed, and which further led to the outflow of over one and a […] View resource Briefing paper Debt Relief for Nicaragua: Breaking out of the poverty trap 01/10/1998 1 documents 34 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview Nicaragua is Latin America’s poorest country, with some of the worst indicators for human welfare. It also has the world’s highest level of per capita debt, at around US$1,300 per capita, and one of the highest ratios of debt to GDP. Even though Nicaragua consistently fails to service its debt in full, actual debt repayments […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know