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The project aims to help safeguard lives, livelihoods and access to essential public services in impoverished countries in debt crisis, especially in Africa and the Caribbean, by supporting campaigners in those countries to win just and long-lasting solutions to their countries’ debt problems.
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Beneficiaries
Situation
People across the global South face a new threat to their lives and livelihoods because of rapidly rising public debt levels. Reckless lending, climate disasters, tax dodging and unfair trade deals mean that countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean face a new spiral of debt and impoverishment. 32 countries are now in or at high risk of debt default, facing such big debt repayments that they are having to cut essential public services like healthcare, water and sanitation.
Solution
We will deploy our extensive expertise in policy, advocacy and campaigning on debt, and mobilise our networks of global allies and UK supporters to support campaigners in countries in debt crisis to win just, rapid and long-lasting solutions to those crises. We will also work with global partners to push for new rules on lending transparency and an end to the bailing out of reckless lenders, so as to help end the boom bust cycle of global debt crises.
