This report is the last in a series from the Jubilee research programme – one of the official successors to the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign – at nef (the new economics foundation) designed to stimulate progress towards a comprehensive and fair treatment of the crisis of sovereign debt of some of the world’s poorest nations. With concern growing about the stability of the global financial system, and the end of an unprecedented period of low interest rates now in sight, this is needed more more...

We are pleased to announce the launch of a special IPC website containing National Reports on Economic Policies for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction (http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/reports.htm). Many of IPC’s Country Studies are drawn from these reports.

See the release of the latest national report on Zambia and the related IPC Country Study, Does Debt Relief Create Fiscal Space in Zambia? The MDG Implications.

The reconstruction of Iraq is one of the most urgent challenges facing the international community. Over the past two decades the country has been devastated by successive wars and since 1990 sanctions. Ordinary Iraqis have suffered gross violations of human rights, along with one of the most dramatic deteriorations in living standards ever recorded. Now unsustainable debt threatens to undermine reconstruction efforts. This briefing paper argues that the country’s debt is unpayable, but also t more...

Nigeria, one of the poorest countries in the world, is in the process of giving a huge sum of money to the
richest countries. UK organisations which are members of the Jubilee Debt Campaign are urging the UK
government to return its share of this money to Nigeria to fi ght poverty.

Jubilee Debt Campaign’s Debt and...
briefings, produced with different
partners, explore the impact of
debt on real lives. They argue that
‘unpayable’ debts, which a country
cannot afford whilst meeting basic
human needs, and ‘illegitimate’
debts, which arose from unfair or
irresponsible lending, should be
cancelled.

Despite numerous commitments to reform, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are still using their aid to make developing countries implement inappropriate economic policies, with the tacit approval of rich-country governments. These economic policy conditions undermine national policy-making, delay aid flows, and often fail to deliver for poor people. If the world is to make poverty history, this practice must be stopped. Aid must be conditional on being spent transparently more...

Classrooms with teachers; clinics with nurses; running taps and working toilets: for millions
of people across developing countries these things are a distant dream. And yet it is these vital
public services — health, education, water and sanitation — that are the key to transforming
the lives of people living in poverty.

As the 2007 German G8 summit approaches, the demands of the millions of anti-poverty campaigners worldwide are clear. G8 leaders must increase and improve aid to provide health, education, water and sanitation for all. They must cancel more debt and deliver trade justice. They must take urgent action to bring peace to the world's most troubled countries and to halt the devastating impact of climate change. Where action has been taken by G8 countries, lives are being saved. Yet despite some areas more...

In April 2006, key donors including the USA, EU, and Canada suspended international aid to the Palestinian Authority government (PA), following the overwhelming victory of Hamas in parliamentary elections. The Government of Israel had previously suspended the transfer of the tax and customs revenues it collects on behalf of the PA.

On the eve of the G-20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors in Melbourne, the worldwide movement of men,
women and children committed to eradicating extreme poverty
continues to gain momentum. While their efforts in recent years
have secured unprecedented action from world leaders, progress
towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
continues to lag. Urgent action is now required at the G-20
meeting to get progress back on track.
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