Debt cancellation has not received uncritical blessings from many of the
'poorest nations'. Many who have attempted to repay are being denied
cancellation/refunds - yet they have often suffered to achieve the
repayments.
Many argue that debt cancellation will give the illusion of a problem
solved, when more, much more needs to be done. And that that 'more' will
not be done if the debt is cancelled.
This seems to me to be a Blair/Brown/Clinton "we are the good guys really"
ploy. It is more to do with giving the impression of liberalism than doing
anything to solve the problems in the 'third world'.
However, a mass phone-in to Comic Relief may be a better way to run the
world than the sham democracy we suffer, so I am all in favour of Comic
Relief replacing all the governments in the world with large red noses.
>The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have told Comic Relief that if
>they can prove that enough people want Third World debt cancelled,
>they will act.
>
>The Jubilee 2000 Coalition has pushed the World's richest nations into
>accepting the principle of debt relief for developing nations. And Mr
>Blair, Mr Clinton and their colleagues in the G8 group of world
>leaders have cancelled some of the debts. But they have not written off the
>unpayable, crippling debts.
Jubilee 200 may have "pushed" but the governments were able to see that it
would be useful to seem shoved.
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