Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971031100454.21433A-100000@dante> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:10:58 -0700 From: JC Wandemberg <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Poor Country Debt (was: On-line Participatory Communication To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
I've never heard of Jubilee 2000 campaign but I think it is a laudable effort. The external debts of developing countries must be adequately resolved if they are to have any hope for breaking through the dependency chains. Until this issue is resolved in a favorable way [from the developing countries perspective] speaking of economic and social justice would be nothing but demagogue.Best regards, JC Wandemberg
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Alan Howes wrote: >
> 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?
> --
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