Jubilee Debt Campaign UK : Background Information and Fact Sheets : It's a Question of Debt

It's a Question of Debt

Suggested age range: 12 - 16 years
Format: Booklet (ten A4 pages)

Details: Summary of debt background, and description of its impact on today's world. Debt timeline 1982 - present, more detailed description of situation in selected countries, suggestions for student action. Written specifically for young people, to enable them to help fellow students in indebted countries.

Publisher: Jubilee Debt Campaign
Cost: free

Curriculum Links include:
Citizenship -
Key Stage 3: 1f, 1l, 2a
Key Stage 4: 1f, 1j

Let us, above all, be clear that: without a convincing programme of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, 2000