Patrick Bond wrote: >No, I would say a dramatic debt cancellation with no strings >attached -- qualitatively different than the WB/IMF/Clinton HIPC >schemes (including the $1 bn announced yesterday) -- could be a >profound non-reformist reform, in the spirit of the first 'graf above. I always loved the title of Harry Cleaver's late-1980s paper (I'm doing this from memory so I may be slightly off): "Close the IMF, cancel the debt, end development!" An excellent principle, and it would even fit on a bumper sticker. Doug