Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Devex speaking on the G20 Leaders' Declaration and global debt. Read the excerpt below and follow the link to full article.

G20 summit in South Africa adopts declaration without the US

By: Elissa Miolene

"Still, the leaders’ declaration did recognize the climbing debt burden facing countries in Africa, and the high cost of capital for nations across the continent. For Eric LeCompte, the executive director of the debt-focused Jubilee USA Network, that mattered — along with the G20’s recent launch of the Africa Engagement Framework, which aims to lock in the G20’s cooperation with Africa, and keep the continent’s most pressing financial issues on the agenda over the next five years. South Africa has committed to supporting the framework until 2030.

“There’s a plan for implementation, the goals are solid, and it actually translates some of the other issues that we really are concerned about in terms of economic growth, finance, debt and development,” said LeCompte. “We’ve never had an initiative like this since the G20 began.”"

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