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Article: This Jubilee year of debt forgiveness is less than golden for poor nations.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
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- July 26, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ The year 2000 was supposed to be the Jubilee year, named after the biblical concept in which debts are canceled and slaves freed every 50 years. Last summer the leaders of the world's richest nations announced with great fanfare that there would finally be serious relief for the world's poorest, debt-ridden countries.
That was then, this is now. The G-8 leaders last year were responding to public protests and organizing by advocates of debt cancellation, including the international coalition of Jubilee 2000 organizations, religious groups, the pope and other celebrities.
This time around they held their meetings _ with heads of state from ...