G8. One year on
On July 15th leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States will meet in .
Collectively they're known as the G8 and it's just over a year since this same group gathered in while simultaneously in London a middle-aged hectored them about dropping debt to certain African nations.
We're going to air a special G8 anniversary show and we want to know what you'd like covered?
I've listed some starting points below -- take a moment to follow the links for some provocative and interesting points of view -- but we want to know what you'd like to debate one year on from Gleneagles.
- Does dropping unsustainable debt to African countries really help them, or it just a way of letting corrupt dictators off the hook? Robert Calderisi describes some of the worst while last year journalist Matthew Parris let off a considerable amount of steam on the same topic . . . Charles Onyango-Obbo covered it for the .
- It's only been a year but already signs of improvement are there. Bob Geldof and the DATA organisation's own status report was released just a week ago: If you're feeling up for it then the full 100 pages is available . Stephen Rand of the Jubilee Debt Campaign says much has been done but there is more to do. Jubilee have given the G8 a first year report card. You can download it
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