New urgency for cancelling Africa's debt / Gumisai Mutume.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Mutume, Gumisai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 pages)

Contained In:

Africa Renewal Vol. 19, no. 1, p. 5-7 19:1<5 2517-9829

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

There is growing optimism that 2005 may prove a watershed year in the drive to cancel much of Africa's foreign debt, a notion inconceivable two decades ago when the global anti-debt movement took off. "We are encouraged," civil society groups declared at an African Social Forum in Lusaka, Zambia, in December, "that after many years of half-measures, full cancellation is being discussed" at the level of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

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