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| Abstract title: | The international anti-debt campaign: a Southern activist view for activists in the North & and the South |
| Author: | Dot Keet |
| Issue: | Volume 10, No 3 and 4 (double anniversary issue) 2000 |
The growing crisis of external indebtedness in the South has become the focus not only of multilateral policy debate, but also the subject of an increasingly vocal international anti-debt campaign, the influence of which was clear at the abortive World Trade Organisation at Seattle in December 1999. Though effective, however, the anti-debt campaign encompasses a range of different positions, which result in diverse strategies and tactics. This paper examines the reasons for and implications of such differences, particularly in relation to North-South solidarity and action, and makes the case for Northern campaigners and lobbyists to take their principal lead from anti-debt groups that are mobilising public opinion in the South.
This article also appears in the Development in Practice Readers Debating Development and Development and Advocacy
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