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| About Us After the Millennium, Jubilee Research @ nef (then called Jubilee Plus) and the Jubilee Debt Campaign were designated as official successors to Jubilee 2000 UK. The Jubilee Research programme is part of the New Global Economy (NGE) programme at nef (the new economics foundation), London. nef is a radical “think-and-do” tank, founded in 1986 by the people who led the first Other Economic Summit – a fore-runner to the World Social Forum. It is based on the principles of new economics, and was voted Prospect Magazine’s UK Think Tank of the Year in 2002/3. Working on the UK and international economies and the environment, it seeks to promote well-being, rights and environmental sustainability, and to resolve tensions between these objectives. Its GNE team coordinates work on markets and climate change with Jubilee Research’s programme of international financial reform. Building on the work of the hugely successful Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign,[1] Jubilee Research continues to provide up-to-date, accurate research, analyses, news and data on international debt. More broadly, it works to establish an international financial system which fosters and supports the achievement of economic and social rights, including the eradication of poverty, in a framework of sustainability, equity and self-reliance. Many of the components of such a programme have already been largely developed, and have widespread support in civil society. They include
Jubilee Research seeks to bring these various proposals together into a coherent overall programme through an extensive process of consultation with Northern and Southern civil society groups. It is committed to challenging the present economic system by
It also aims to establish global and regional networks of NGOs and CSOs as a two-way channel of communication to provide input to the formulation of the reform proposal, and to stimulate consistent advocacy on a global scale. Our address: Jubilee Research at nef [1] Jubilee 2000 grew from small beginnings to become an international campaign that brought great pressure to bear on G7 leaders to "cancel the unpayable debts of the poorest countries by the year 2000, under a fair and transparent process". By the end of the campaign, 24 million signatures had been gathered for the Jubilee 2000 petition, the first-ever global petition. There were Jubilee 2000 campaigns in more than 60 countries around the world. G7 leaders had committed to writing off $100bn of poor country debts, and debt had been pushed on to the global political agenda. (For more information on Jubilee 2000, see the Jubilee 2000 report on this site: "The World Will Never Be the Same Again"). The board of Jubilee 2000 UK named what is now Jubilee Research@ nef (and for a period of transition was Jubilee Plus) as an official successor organisation. Jubilee research maintains contact with the campaigning groups round the world which have taken on the work of the Jubilee 2000 campaign. In the North, these groups include the UK’s Jubilee Debt Campaign (www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk) and Jubilee USA (www.jubileeusa.org ) . In the South, a network of Jubilee 2000 campaigns has coalesced behind the Jubilee Movement International (JMI). Information on JMI and a list of JMI members worldwide can be found on the JMI homepage on our website.
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