Debt and Public Services

Jubilee Debt Campaign in association with Oxfam and UNISON

In many of the poorest countries, the provision of decent, accessible public services – delivered by a qualified and properly paid workforce – is threatened by huge debt burdens and damaging policies demanded by creditors.

Every day 4,000 children die from diarrhoea, a disease of dirty water, and 1,400 women die in pregnancy or childbirth. In developing countries, public services can men the
difference between life and death.

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Date of publication: October 2007