G‐20 LEADERS REMAIN VAGUE ON COMMITMENTS TO WORLD’S POOREST
Not a good start for the “premier forum for international economic cooperation
”The United Nations Millennium Campaign is disappointed that the recently concluded G‐20 meetingsended with nothing more than vague commitments to the needs of the world’s poorest represented bythe Millennium Development Goals.
AHEAD OF G‐20, NEW FIGURES PREDICT LESS AID AND MORE DEBT FOR POOR COUNTRIES ALREADY HIT BY ECONOMIC CRISIS
United Nations Millennium Campaign Warns that Poor Countries Risk Being Left Out of Looming EconomicRecovery
Ahead of Friday’s G‐20 summit in Pittsburgh, the United Nations Millennium Campaign is releasing new figureswhich show that unless rich countries marshal additional resources at the summit, they are likely to deliver $33billion less aid than promised to the poor countries which are hardest hit by the global economic crisis. At thesame time, packages intended to help poor countries address the crisis might drive them deeper into debt.
UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN URGES STAGGERING $850 BILLION ALLOCATED TO IMF AND WORLD BANK AT G-20 BE TARGETED AT ACHIEVING MDGs
UN Millennium Campaign vows to support citizens’ monitoring of commitments made by G-20 leaders
(April 2, 2009) — The UN Millennium Campaign welcomes the recommitment from G-20 leaders to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the needs of the world’spoorest. The Campaign also welcomes the massive resources pledged by G-20 leadersto developing countries – in both recommitments to previous aid commitments and newpledges.
UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN URGES WORLD LEADERS TO PRIORITIZE SOLUTIONS FOR THE POOR AT G-20 MEETING
Millennium Campaign cautions that while additional resources are urgently needed tohelp the world’s poor survive the economic crisis, they must be free of harmfulconditionalities that increase indebtedness and put at risk the achievement of theMillennium Development Goals
UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR $300 BILLION BAILOUT OF WORLD’S POOR AT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SUMMIT THIS SATURDAY
G-8 nations must compensate $300 billion loss in GDP faced by the world’s poorer nations as the result of financial crisis they had no role in causing
The United Nations Millennium Campaign is today calling for world leaders gathering at President Bush’s economic summit in Washington this Saturday to allocate $300 billion in additional aid and debt relief to the world’s poorer countries, to make up for the GDP they are forecast to lose as a result of the global financial crisis over the next two years.
