{"id":2086,"date":"2004-12-08T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T23:34:19","slug":"2086","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2086\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Eradication of extreme poverty could actually happen in our lifetime…<\/p>\n

Brown to wipe debt for world’s poorest<\/a>
\"Gordon“CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown today pledged a new deal for the third world, by doubling aid and wiping out debt owed by the poorest nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chancellor was set to describe 2005 as a “make or break year for development” as he set out his ideas for how Britain’s forthcoming presidencies of the EU and G8 should be judged.<\/p>\n

Mr Brown will identify the priorities for Britain’s presidencies as:<\/strong><\/p>\n

• A new financial package for the developing world, centred on the UK-designed International Finance Facility (IFF), which would raise aid from donor countries from £25.7 billion to £51.4 billion.<\/p>\n

• That would be coupled with the elimination of outstanding debt owed by the poorest countries to lending countries, and to institutions like the World Bank, IMF and African Development Bank.<\/p>\n

• The final element of the package would be persuading other major industrialised countries to match the UK’s commitment to a timetable to spend 0.7{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of their national income on overseas development assistance: the UK’s timetable is 2013 on current progress, or 2009 if the IFF comes into effect.<\/p>\n

• To agree an Advance Purchase Scheme for potential future malaria and AIDS vaccines – which would work by the UK and other countries making a legally-binding commitment to purchase millions of courses of an AIDS vaccine as soon as one becomes available, creating a ready-made market for the vaccine to induce the world’s drugs companies to increase their research.<\/p>\n

Next week he will visit the American administration, the IMF and the World Bank to build international support for these goals for international justice.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eradication of extreme poverty could actually happen in our lifetime… Brown to wipe debt for world’s poorest“CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown today pledged a new deal for the third world, by doubling aid and wiping out debt owed by the poorest nations. The Chancellor was set to describe 2005 as a “make or break year for development” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}