Providing debt relief for the poorest countries pursuing structural adjustment

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. All creditors in the Paris Club should promptly implement the agreement of December 1991 to provide debt relief for the poorest heavily indebted countries pursuing structural adjustment; debt relief measures should be kept under review so as to address the continuing difficulties of these countries.

1. Rescheduling external debt
2. Relieving development assistance debt
3. Promoting structural adjustment in debtor countries
4. Mitigating social consequences of structural adjustment programmes
5. Addressing continuing debt problems of poorest heavily-indebted countries

1. Improving financial resources and mechanisms for sustainable development

1. Giving generous debt relief terms to poorest and most indebted countries

1. Unsociable
2. Uneconomic
3. Relief
4. Debt
5. Adjustment