Who's dropping the debt?

The debt of poor countries has finally become a significant political issue in the West. The latest changes on debt policy have been prompted by non-governmental organisations' relentless lobbying of Western (or Northern) governments and a sympathetic management team at the World Bank. Here are the main voices in the debt debate:

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James Wolfensohn, Michel Camdessus, Kofi Annan, Mark Malloch-Brown, Carol Bellamy, Kingsley Amoako, Omar Kabbaj, United States, Bill Clinton, United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, France, Japan, Germany, Gerhard Schroeder, Canada, Paul Martin, Italy, Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Ann Pettifor, Carole Collins, John Paul, Bono, Robbie Williams, Jeffrey Sachs, Kwesi Botchwey, Kevin Watkins, Netherlands, ad hoc

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