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Debt Relief for Rwanda: An opportunity for peacebuilding and reconstruction

01/03/1999

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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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 […]

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Palestinian Refugees and Unrwa

01/02/1999

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam GB has been working with Palestinian refugees for fifty years, supporting initiatives in health, education and livelihoods. It currently supports projects which involve refugees in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories, in the fields of vocational training, early childhood development, and gender. Within the framework of its programme and advocacy interests in the Middle East, […]

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Central America after Hurricane Mitch: Will the donors deliver?

03/12/1998

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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During the week of December 7, the international community will hold two meetings of vital importance to the future of Central America. The Paris Club of creditor nations will hold their regular monthly meeting in Paris on December 9; on their agenda will be discussions on debt relief for Central America. The leaders of Nicaragua, […]

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Update on the MAI

01/12/1998

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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Finance

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This update provides information on recent developments on the draft Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and Oxfam GB’s position on it. Oxfam had fundamental concerns with the draft MAI relating to its scope, process, principles and provisions. Our analysis led us to conclude that the draft MAI was a seriously unbalanced agreement that would be […]

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East Asian ‘Recovery’ Leaves the Poor Sinking

01/10/1998

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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The economic crisis in East Asia shows no sign of abating. Far from resolving the region’s problems, IMF ‘rescue’ measures have exacerbated their severity, contributing to an economic collapse which parallels in scale the Great Depression of 1929. Real wages have collapsed, remittances to poor rural areas have fallen, and access to basic services is […]

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Debt Relief for Nicaragua: Breaking out of the poverty trap

01/10/1998

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34 pages long

Languages: English

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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 […]

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Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future

01/04/1998

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28 pages long

Languages: English

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Tanzania is one of the world’s poorest countries. Around half of the population lives below the poverty line, one in six children die before the age of five, and almost one-third of the population will not live until the age of forty. These human welfare indicators are the culmination of almost two decades of slow […]

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Weather Alert! Evidence of a hidden crisis for the world’s poor

29/09/1983

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of the world’s poorest people are threatened by freak weather conditions. This year’s unprecedented climatic extremes brought drought to the rich world hitting agriculture in Australia and South Africa particularly hard and substantially reducing the 1983 grain harvest in the USA. England experienced its hottest July on record. In the poor world a […]

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