Debt Relief
Overviews and Factsheets
50 Years is Enough - Debt Factsheet
A Beginner's guide to the Debt Crisis
This guide covers: how it all began; the effects of debt on the ground; various political initiatives to deal with the debt crisis; and the worldwide movement resisting debt.
Jubilee USA Network
A Silent War: The devastating impact of debt on the poor
Millions of people around the world are living in poverty because of Third World debt and its consequences. How debt affects health, education, employment and trade in poor countries.
Jubilee Research
Africa: In Bondage to Debt
Every child in Africa is born with a financial burden which a lifetime's work cannot repay. The debt is a new form of slavery as vicious as the slave trade.
Church World Service
Background on Debt
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
Beginner's Guide to Debt
DebtChannel.org
Debt - the Facts
New Internationalist
Debt & the World Bank
WhirledBank.org
Debt and the World Bank/IMF
50 Years is Enough
Debt Factsheets
Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative
Facts & Statistics on Debt
Jubilee Debt Campaign
FAQs on Debt
Jubilee Debt Campaign
HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative) Factsheet (Word format)
Jubilee Debt Campaign
Questions & Answers About Debt
Jubilee Australia
Questions and Answers on Debt
Christian Aid
The Debt Crisis
DATA
Why Drop the Debt?
Jubilee USA
Why the debt should be cancelled: Human Rights
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
Other Key Articles and Documents
"A World of Debt"
Rick Rowden, The American Prospect
Africa's Debt - Africa Action Position Paper
Africa Action
Debt Relief 2 Years On - A Briefing
January, 2003, fact sheet on the progress of the HIPC initiative.
Jubilee Research
Determined to Fail: The Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative (PDF)
From September, 2002.
Jubilee USA Network
Multilateral Debt: The Unbearable Burden
Soren Ambrose, 50 Years is Enough Network
The Rough Guide to Debt
This briefing looks at the origins of the debt crisis for poor countries, the official policies intended to address the problem and the proposed alternatives.
CAFOD
The Scale of the Debt Crisis
GlobalIssues.org
Reports and Publications
Delivering on Debt Relief
By Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese, March 2002.
Center for Global Development
Eye of the Needle: The Africa debt report
A country by country analysis by Jubilee 2000 Coalition.
Jubilee 2000 Coalition
The Transfer of Wealth (PDF)
A thought provoking collection of articles that lay bare the dynamics, the interlinkages and impact of debt, financial institutions and the making of a Global South.
Focus on the Global South
The Unbreakable Link (PDF)
Looks at the cost of meeting the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countries, finding that 100% debt relief (as well as increased aid) is absolutely essential if the goals are to be met.
Jubilee Debt Campaign and Jubilee Research
Other Articles and Documents
"How to Spell Debt Relief"
Jeff Sellers, Christianity Today
"Vicious circle"
How poor countries are caught in a cycle of debt and poverty that token debt cancellation has failed to break.
Christian Aid
Africa: Debt Background Paper
Africa Policy Information Center
Forever in your debt? Eight poor nations and the G-8
Christian Aid
New World Bank Reports Confirm that the HIPC Initiative is Failing
Jubilee Research
Pieces in the Puzzle: Seeking justice on both trade and debt
Christian Aid
Reality Check: the need for deeper debt cancellation and the fight against HIV/AIDS
Drop the Debt
Relief Works: African proposals for debt cancellation - and why debt relief works (PDF)
Jubilee Research
Resolving international debt crises –
the Jubilee Framework for international insolvency
Jubilee Research
Statement of the Jubilee Movement International For Economic and Social Justice
Still waiting - time for a new deal on Third-World debt
Christian Aid
The United States as a HIPC - How the poor are financing the rich
Jubilee Research
Towards a Better Life for All the People of Africa
Archbishop Ndungane (Washington Office on Africa website)
Who owes who: Climate change, debt, equity and survival
Christian Aid
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