21ST CENTURY DEBATES
Global Debt

The highly successful 21st Century Debates series looks at the enormous social and political issues in society at the start of the new millennium. Global Debt provides a fascinating exploration of the global debt crisis - one of the most important political and moral issues of our time. It thoroughly explains the causes and consequences of debt in developing countries, and how their future is inextricably linked to the policies of the developed world. It assesses the deeply destructive effects of debt on countries and individuals and ends by looking at possible solutions to resolve the crisis in the long term.

Throughout the book their are differing viewpoints, facts and debates which show the complexity of global debt and help the reader to make up their own mind about it.

 
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Find out more about bonded labour from Anti-Slavery International's website - the world's oldest international human rights organization, founded in 1839.

11 Find out more about personal debt in the UK.
11 Further information about the international debt crisis.
15 Find out more about the International Monetary Fund from their website.
25 The Jubilee USA Network's website - an organization dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people provides information about the debt burden.
29 Find out more about the world's AIDS crisis from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
34 Read an article about the impact of the debt crisis on all of us from a website that looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are interrelated.
42 Find out more about aid from OneWorld Action- a community of over 1250 organizations working for social justice.

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Find out all about The World Trade Organisation from their website

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Learn about the links between trade and debt from the World Development Movement Website

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Find out more about fair trade from The Fairtrade Foundation's website - a Foundation which exists to ensure a better deal for disadvantaged third world producers.
54 Learn about debt relief and other debt issues from the Charity Oxfam's website.
57 Find out more about the HIPC initiative from the World Bank's website.

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Find out more about the HIPC initiative from a website that looks into global issues that affect everyone and aims to show how most issues are interrelated.