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G8 – Africa nil by Stuart Hodkinson (November 2005)

Four months on and with the ‘historic G8 deal for Africa’ already in tatters, the Make Poverty History coalition is as silent as it was once ubiquitous. Ahead of December’s World Trade Organisation summit in Hong Kong, Stuart Hodkinson investigates

They still don’t get it: the IMF and poor country debt by James Lloyd (September 2003)

The International Monetary Fund says it wants to find a new framework for dealing with the debt burden of low-income countries that helps those countries meet international goals on poverty reduction. But recent proposals by the IMF for a new strategy on overseeing poor country borrowing that does just that have been given a damning verdict by leading development NGOs.