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VOICE FROM THE SOUTH: A COUNTRY'S INHERITANCE
Activist Muyatwa Sitali highlights Zambia’s efforts to challenge vulture funds, cancel debt and push for transparency. READ
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON THE JUBILEE ACT: HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? Wondering how debt cancellation can be financed? This fact sheet offers: (1) an overview of the amount and types of debt that would be cancelled under the provisions of the legislation; (2) an initial assessment of the costs of the proposed debt relief to the United States and international institutions; and (3) a suggestion of means through which the financing could be provided (though the legislation itself does not specifically detail how the measure would be financed). DOWNLOAD
3 NEW REPORTS SUGGEST IMF POLICIES UNDERMINE EFFORTS ON HIV/AIDS, HEALTH & EDUCATION
VULTURE FUNDS: COMPROMISING THE GAINS OF DEBT CANCELLATION While the international community was extending debt relief to some impoverished countries, a new form of business emerged with the purpose of speculating in and profiteering from poor country debt in default. This new business by so-called “vulture funds” comes at the expense of the citizens of these indebted countries as well as taxpayers in countries like the United States, who have been supporting, in part, the cost of debt relief. DOWNLOAD
LIBERIA DONOR REPORT CARD Read the first policy report of the year from Jubilee USA and its partners. The report assesses progress by the donor community in aiding Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in her first year. DOWNLOAD
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