Did the G8 deliver? Have your say
 The world's richest countries have made some positive promises, but the outcome of the G8 summit in Gleneagles has fallen short of the hopes of millions of campaigners.
Here are the details:
AID: Increase in aid by an extra $50bn by 2010.
This will save the lives of five million children by 2010 - but 50 million children's lives will still be lost because the G8 didn't go far enough.
DEBT: The G8 leaders have confirmed their finance ministers' agreement on debt cancellation, and the Paris Club deal to tackle Nigeria's debt. Yet they didn't include desperately poor countries such as Sri Lanka, Kenya and Vietnam.
TRADE: G8 leaders failed to kick-start stalled global trade talks. No end date was set for scrapping their damaging agricultural export subsidies.
Before the next WTO meeting in Hong Kong in December the rich countries NEED to change their position on trade. Put pressure on them NOW: sign up to the Big Noise petition to Make Trade Fair. Check out what Oxfam has to say about the G8 here.
Were you pleased/surprised/disappointed with the G8? Have your say below.
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I'm quite chuffed that the G8 seem to have listened to what's been going on at Live8 and with Make Poverty History - but they should've done way more on trade. That's the really big issue.
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July 11, 2005 1:53 PM
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