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Western countries who are members of the 'Paris Club' have now agreed to cancel 50 per cent of the debt owed to them by Burma (Myanmar).

Church of England bishops and the Methodist President are among signatories to a multifaith letter calling for an end to a financial system built on unjust debt.

Occupy Wall Street has launched a ‘Rolling Jubilee’ of debt cancellations, in a “people’s bailout” campaign to wipe out millions of dollars of toxic debt.

Startling new research has found that debt burdens in impoverished countries have increased significantly since the debt cancellation of the 2000s.