Reports
Browse below for a list of recent Jubilee Debt Campaign reports, and recommendations of books which explore the debt crisis and related issues.Use the link on the right to see recommendations of useful and interesting books on the debt crisis and related issues.
Jubilee Debt Campaign's Debt and... briefings, produced with different partners, explore the impact of debt on real lives.
So far in the series:
Debt and Public Services
In developing countries, the provision of decent, accessible public services can mean the difference between life and death, yet these services are threatened by huge debt burdens and the damaging policies demanded by creditors.
Debt and Climate Change
New figures reveal that rich countries owe 27 times more in ‘carbon debt’ than poor countries pay in debt repayments to wealthy nations.
Debt and Education
The ongoing debt crisis in poor countries has had and is still having a severe impact on access to education. This briefing explores the impact of debt and debt cancellation on education in poor countries.
Debt and Women
Poor countries' crippling debt burden has a particularly severe impact on women and girls. This briefing paper explores how it is women who take on most of the extra burdens created by a debt crisis, and how debt cancellation needs to work for their benefit.
All the reports below are available in hard copy by completing the Materials Order Form; they are also available to download after following the links below.
Unfinished business: 10 years of drop the debt Jubilee Debt Campaign's tenth anniversary report finds that at least another $400 billion of debt cancellation is needed if the world’s poorest countries are to combat the challenge of global poverty. May 2008 |
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Enough is enough: The debt repudiation option A Christian Aid report looking at the dangers and benefits for poor country governments of choosing not to pay all or part of their debts, in order to spend the money on vital services. January 2007 |
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Cut the Strings! A Jubilee Debt Campaign report explaining the devastating impact of the strings attached to debt cancellation, and setting out why the UK government must take further action to ensure these strings are cut. September 2006 |
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Tightening the chains or cutting the strings? Tightening the chains or cutting the strings? The status of HIPC conditionality in 2006 provides comprehensive information on HIPC conditionality, as of September 2006. September 2006 |
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Loose Ends A briefing by Jubilee Debt Campaign and Jubilee USA highlighting the issues that need to be resolved at the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in September 2005 if the G8 debt deal is to be delivered. September 2005 |
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In the balance A joint briefing paper by Jubilee Debt Campaign and coalition members ActionAid and Christian Aid, setting out why debts must be cancelled now to meet the Millennium Development Goals. May 2005 |
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If not now, when? This report of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, produced in partnership with Jubilee Debt Campaign, makes urgent recommendations on debt cancellation for a strong and prosperous Africa. February 2005 |
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Call for Change A Jubilee Debt Campaign and World Development Movement report on how the UK can afford to cancel its share of Third World Debt. March 2004 |
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Did the G8 Drop the Debt? Written five years after the Birmingham Human Chain, this report looks at what had been achieved by 2003, and what more needed to be done. A report by Jubilee Research, CAFOD, and Jubilee Debt Campaign. May 2003 |
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