Opinion

Periodically, Jubilee Research will post an opinion piece, by a named author, whose purpose will be to stir lively debate and discussion on a chosen issue. 

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June 2003: George Monbiot: How to Stop America

April 2003 - Joseph Stiglitz: The ruin of Russia

Sept 2002 - Joseph Stiglitz: The disastrous consequences of instability

July 2002 - Anatole Kaletsky: Don't panic, there's good news in this meltdown. The Times.

July 2002 - Ann Pettifor: Politics vital for human development says UNDP 

July 2002 - FT Columnist Martin Wolf discusses the flaws in Joseph Stiglitz's new book, 'Globalisation and its discontents'

July 2002 - Ann Pettifor: Debt still the lynchpin of global economic injustice 

March 2002 - Bernard Otabil: "Africans need to be helped to help themselves"

March 2002 - Romilly Greenhill "In Praise of Discrimination."

March 2002 - Martin Wolf Hopes in Tobin Tax 'misplaced.'

November 2001 - Martin Wolf "The view from the limousine"

November 2001 - Sebastian Mallaby "Helping the Rich, Harming the Poor"

October 2001 - Anthony Lewis "The Inescapable World"

Septmber 2001 - Ann Pettifor "Stealing the Common from the goose"

Septmber 2001 - David R. Francis's opinion over how best to 'rescue' Argentina

September 2001 - Martin Wolf responds to the anti-globalisation protesters

June 2001: US Treasury's opinion about the HIPC initiative

27 June 2001 - This week's debate is: Arbitration, insolvency and limited liability: their relevance to debtor nations. Ann Pettifor argues that there is little that is fair and open about procedures to re-negotiate poor country debts today.

27 June 2001 - This week's debate is: . Ann Pettifor proposes Concordats for debt cancellation - making debt relief work twice: first as money to the poor; second, for empowering the poor 

12 June 2001 - This week's debate is: Liquidating the World Bank: with debtor countries buying back their loans and introducing self-financing development, by Shann Turnbull

A response by Sada Diarra, Interim Facilitator, Jubilee Movement International (Français)

12 June 2001 - This week's debate is: Larry Summers opposes World Bank's engagement with "civil society". Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary, is now President of Harvard University.

25 May 2001 - This week's debate is: In search of a heart at Bretton Woods by Charlotte Bagorogoza.
Global Jubilee campaigners need to prepare ground for all the parties in the debt arena to adopt sustainability as the main goal of all their efforts in the primary objective beyond advocating for debt cancellation.

1 May 2001 - This week's debate is: Ghana and HIPC: what should be done? by Akoto Ampaw. Click here.