Papers and reports on debt and aid

2009

Aid for Agriculture: Promises and the Reality on the Ground - November

Money for Nothing: Three ways the G20 could deliver up to $280 billion for poor countries - September

Investing in Poor Farmers Pays: Rethinking how to invest in agriculture - June

Making Pooled Funding Work for People in Crisis - May

What Happened at the G20? Initial Analysis of the London Summit - April

Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries - February

A Billion Hungry People: Governments and aid agencies must rise to the challenge - January

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2008

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world's poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system - November

From Poverty to Power - June 2008

Credibility crunch - Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders - June

The Time is Now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis - June

Fast forward: How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high-quality budget support for education and health - May

Falling short: aid effectiveness in Afghanistan - March

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2007

Debt and Public Services - October

Blind spot: the continued failure of the World Bank and IMF to fully assess the impact of their advice on poor people - September

The World is Still Waiting: Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives - May

Poverty in Palestine: the human cost of the financial boycott - April

Pricing Farmers out of Cotton: The costs of World Bank reforms in Mali - March

Debt and Women - January

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2006

Kicking the Habit: How the World Bank and the IMF are still addicted to attaching economic policy conditions to aid - November

Our Generation's Choice: G-20 in Australia - November

In the Public Interest: Health, Education, and Water and Sanitation for All - September

Oxfam’s response to the UK Government Department for International Development 2006 White Paper: Eliminating Poverty - July

The view from the summit – Gleneagles G8 one year on - June

EU aid: genuine leadership or misleading figures? - May

Justice for Nigeria: Why the UK should return Nigeria’s £1.7 billion to fight poverty -February

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2005

Beyond HIPC: Debt cancellation and the Millennium Development Goals - September

The UN World Summit must show new determination to live up to the Millennium Declaration - August

Gleneagles: what really happened at the G8 summit? - July

Europe's role in making poverty history - British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND) manifesto (PDF, 1,097K) - June

Oxfam International Submission to World Bank Review of Conditionality, May 2005 - June 2005

Missing the Mark: A School Report on rich countries’ contribution to Universal Primary Education by 2015 - April

Millstone or Milestone? What rich countries must do in Paris to make aid work for poor people - February

Time to bring into line the aid skinflints of Europe - article for The Guardian newspaper - February

EU Heroes and Villains: Which countries are living up to their promises on aid, trade, and debt? - February

Do the Deal: The G7 must act now to cancel poor country debts - February

Q & A: World Poverty - Oxfam GB's Director, Barbara Stocking, answers questions on how the international community should tackle world poverty - article for The Times newspaper - January

The Asian Tsunami: The challenge after the Jakarta summit - January

Make History: A challenge to the British Prime Minister in 2005 - January

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2004

Paying the Price: Why rich countries must invest now in a war on poverty - December

Fool's gold: The case for 100% multilateral debt cancellation for the poorest countries - October

Undervaluing teachers: IMF policies squeeze Zambia’s education system - October

To lend or to grant? A critical view of the IMF and World Bank’s proposed approach to debt sustainability analyses for low-income countries - May

The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid - March

‘Donorship’ to Ownership?: Moving Towards PRSP Round Two - January

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2003

The IMF and the Millennium Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries - September

Debt and the Millennium Development Goals: A new deal for low-income countries - September

A Fresh Start For Iraq: the case for debt relief - May

Evian G8: Time to Declare a War on Poverty - May

Where is the impact? - April

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2002

Submission to the World Bank and IMF Review of HIPC and Debt Sustainability - August

Death on the Doorstep of the Summit - August

Debt relief and the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa: Does the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative go far enough? - June

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2001

21st Century Debt Relief - January

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2000

Make debt relief work: proposals for the G7 - July

Drop the debt - go back to first principles: a challenge to the G7 - July

Tax Havens: Releasing the hidden billions for poverty eradication - June

Growth with equity is good for the poor - June

Debt relief and poverty reduction: failing to deliver - April

1999

G7 Differences threaten to sink debt relief hopes - June

Oxfam International submission to the Heavily Indebted Poor County (HIPC) Debt Review - April

Debt Relief for Rwanda: an opportunity for peace-building and reconstruction - March

1998

Debt Relief for Nicaragua: breaking out of the poverty trap - October

East Asian ‘recovery’ leaves the poor sinking - October

Debt relief and poverty reduction: strengthening the linkage - August