Message-ID: <345f5a7b.5058262@mail.zetnet.co.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:04:46 GMT From: Alan Howes <mailto:alan.howes@zetnet.co.uk> Subject: Poor Country Debt (was: On-line Participatory Communication To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:59:13 -0600, kerry <mailto:astingsh@KSU.EDU> wrote:>As we seem to have forgotten how to do it here, maybe it's time for a
>refresher course.
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>Subject: On-line Participatory Communication Conference
>List members may be interested in the following online conference.
Participation, you mean? Yes, there don't seem to have many follow-ups recently.
Personally, I've been waiting for someone to raise the issue of Poor Country Debt, so perhaps I should raise it myself. [See my sig.]
The Jubilee 2000 campaign to remit the unpayable debt of poor countries as a fitting way to celebrate the millennium is steaming ahead quite well in the UK - but I get the impression that it's an issue little understood or cared about in the US. Pity, because the US government is one of those (along with Germany and Japan) is one of the countries standing in the way of even a limited solution.
Has anyone _heard_ of Jubilee 2000? Or the HIPC Initiative? Is anybody there?
-- Alan P Howes, Public Transport Consultant Alan Howes Associates, Perthshire, FK15 9JL, Scotland mailto:alan.howes@zetnet.co.uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/alanhowes/*** A debt-free start for a billion people in the world's poorest *** *** countries - Jubilee 2000, http://www.oneworld.org/jubilee2000/ ***