countries who applied for condonation of debts? The countries which has the highest debts in the world?
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Hi - you may have heard of the ONE campaign?  (go to www.one.org)  They have information & links to the following where you can find the figures you're looking for.\n\nTHE DEBT CRISIS\nwww.data.org\n\nFor decades, Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region of the world, was spending billions of dollars each year repaying debts to the world’s rich countries and international institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. \n\nMany countries in Africa were spending more each year on debt than on health care and education combined. Why? Decades worth of loans had been given without much thought to how countries could pay them back. \n\nSome of the loans went to prop up bad governments or military regimes that are now long gone. Some of the loans were wasted by the governments that received them. Some were given by rich countries in ways that served their own self-interest. Skyrocketing interest rates and bad economic policies have multiplied these old debts over and over again. \n\nBetween 1970 and 2002 Africa received $540 billion in loans. Despite the fact that over that same period, African countries paid back $550 billion—$10 billion more than the original loans—at the end of 2002 they\nstill owed another $293 billion. Over the past few years, thanks to the efforts of those who contributed to the international Jubilee 2000 movement for debt relief, politicians have begun to respond to the debt crisis. \n\nIn 1999, the world’s richest countries came\ntogether to write off billions of dollars of poor countries’ debts through the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The HIPC program provides debt relief to countries with good governments committed to fighting corruption and poverty and investing in the health and education of their people. \n\nThere are 38 countries currently enrolled in the HIPC initiative (32 of them in Africa) and so far 18 of them have completed the program have benefited from debt relief and have been able to channel that money into vertyreduction\nprograms; another 10 have begun the process and are receiving interim relief.\n\nThe problem is, though, that HIPC did not completely cancel countries’ debts and even after reaching their completion points, many countries were still spending too much money on debt, often taking on new loans to repay\nold loans. \n\nIn an effort to end this unending cycle of debt, the Finance Ministers of the world’s wealthiest countries agreed in June of 2005 to free the HIPC countries from 100% of their debts by canceling the debts owed to the\nWorld Bank, The IMF and the African Development Bank. \n\nIt also calls for a move from loans to grants for the poorest countries in the world in an effort to end to vicious cycle of debt in which they have been entrapped. It will\nimmediately cancel $40 billion of debt for the 18 countries that have already reached their completion point and will eventually result in $56 billion of debt cancellation once all 38 HIPC countries reach completion point. \n\nThe Finance Ministers also agreed to consider a debt deal for Nigeria even though it is not a HIPC country. Donors shortly thereafter announced a plan to use both donor resources and Nigeria’s own resources to cancel Nigeria’s outstanding debt; this is an important commitment because Nigeria has about $35b worth of debt and 95 million people living on less than $1 per day. \n\nThis debt deal is an important step in the fight against global poverty, but there are still other poor countries in need of debt cancellation so that they can better fight HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty.\n\nWhile debt cancellation alone will not generate all the resources needed by poor countries, the money freed up from\ndebt relief has consistently been put to good use; World Bank estimates show that poverty reducing expenditures will rise from previous levels of less than twice that of debt service to more than four tim
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Inability to repay debt to the IMF (International Monetary Fund).
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All of these countries have legally banded the death penalty (year of ban in ()):\n    * Andorra (1990)\n    * Angola (1992)\n    * Armenia (2003)\n    * Australia (1984)\n    * Austria (1950)\n    * Azerbaijan (1998)\n    * Belgium (1996)\n    * Bermuda (1999)\n    * Bhutan (2004)\n    * Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997)\n    * Bulgaria (1998)\n    * Cambodia (1989)\n    * Canada (1976)\n    * Cape Verde (1981)\n    * Colombia (1910)\n    * Costa Rica (1877)\n    * Côte d'Ivoire (2000)\n    * Croatia (1990)\n    * Cyprus (1983)\n    * Czech Republic (1990)\n    * Denmark (1933)\n    * Djibouti (1995)\n    * Dominican Republic (1966)\n    * East Timor (1999)\n    * Ecuador (1906)\n    * Estonia (1998)\n    * Finland (1949)\n    * France (1981)\n    * Georgia (1997)\n    * Germany (1987)\n    * Greece (1993)\n    * Guinea-Bissau (1993)\n    * Haiti (1987)\n    * Honduras (1956)\n    * Hungary (1990)\n    * Iceland (1928)\n    * Ireland (1990)\n    * Italy (1947)\n    * Kiribati (1979)\n    * Liberia (2005)\n    * Liechtenstein (1987)\n    * Lithuania (1998)\n    * Luxembourg (1979)\n    * Macedonia (1991)\n    * Malta (1971)\n    * Marshall Islands (1986)\n    * Mauritius (1995)\n    * Mexico (2005)\n    * Micronesia (1986)\n    * Moldova (1995)\n    * Monaco (1962)\n    * Mozambique (1990)\n    * Namibia (1990)\n    * Nepal (1990)\n    * Netherlands (1870)\n    * New Zealand (1961)\n    * Nicaragua (1979)\n    * Niue (n.a.)\n    * Norway (1905)\n    * Palau (n.a.)\n    * Panama (1903)\n    * Paraguay (1992)\n    * Poland (1997)\n    * Portugal (1867)\n    * Romania (1989)\n    * Samoa (2004)\n    * San Marino (1848)\n    * São Tomé and Príncipe (1990)\n    * Senegal (2004)\n    * Serbia and Montenegro (2002)\n    * Seychelles (1993)\n    * Slovak Republic (1990)\n    * Slovenia (1989)\n    * Solomon Islands (1966)\n    * South Africa (1995)\n    * Spain (1978)\n    * Sweden (1921)\n    * Switzerland (1942)\n    * Turkey (2002)\n    * Turkmenistan (1999)\n    * Tuvalu (1978)\n    * Ukraine (1999)\n    * United Kingdom (1973)\n    * Uruguay (1907)\n    * Vanuatu (1980)\n    * Vatican City (1969)\n    * Venezuela (1863)\n\nThese countries no longer execute people, but have no legal ban:\n    * Albania (2000)\n    * Argentina (1984)\n    * Bolivia (1997)\n    * Brazil (1979)\n    * Chile (2001)\n    * Cook Islands (n.a.)\n    * El Salvador (1983)\n    * Fiji (1979)\n    * Israel (1954)\n    * Latvia (1999)\n    * Peru (1979)\n    * Algeria (1993)\n    * Benin (1987)\n    * Brunei Darussalam (1957)\n    * Burkina Faso (1988)\n    * Central African Republic (1981)\n    * Congo (Republic) (1982)\n    * Gambia (1981)\n    * Grenada (1978)\n    * Kenya (n.a.)\n    * Madagascar (1958)\n    * Maldives (1952)\n    * Mali (1980)\n    * Mauritania (1987)\n    * Morocco (1993)\n    * Myanmar (1993)\n    * Nauru (1968)\n    * Niger (1976)\n    * Papua New Guinea (1950)\n    * Russia (1999)\n    * Sri Lanka (1976)\n    * Suriname (1982)\n    * Togo (n.a.)\n    * Tonga (1982)\n    * Tunisia (1990)\n\n\nThese are the countries where capital punishment is still legal:\n\n    * Afghanistan\n    * Antigua and Barbuda\n    * Bahamas\n    * Bahrain\n    * Bangladesh\n    * Barbados\n    * Belarus\n    * Belize\n    * Botswana\n    * Burundi\n    * Cameroon\n    * Chad\n    * China (People's Republic)\n    * Comoros\n    * Congo (Democratic Republic)\n    * Cuba\n    * Dominica\n    * Egypt\n    * Equatorial Guinea\n    * Eritrea\n    * Ethiopia\n    * Gabon\n    * Ghana\n    * Guatemala\n    * Guinea\n    * Guyana\n    * India\n    * Indonesia\n    * Iran\n    * Iraq\n    * Jamaica\n    * Japan\n    * Jordan\n    * Kazakhstan\n    * Korea, North\n    * Korea, South\n    * Kuwait\n    * Kyrgyzstan\n    * Laos\n    * Lebanon\n    * Lesotho\n       * Libya\n    * Malawi\n    * Malaysia\n    * Mongolia\n    * Nigeria\n    * Oman\n    * Pakistan\n    * Palestinian Authority\n    * Philippines\n    * Qatar\n    * Rwanda\n    * St. Kitts and Nevis\n
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if you are referring to the 2nd W,W,  Japan and Germany are the only ones who paid in full England paid part the rest was forgiven, \nRussia, told us to kiss off and didn't even give our ships back that we let them have on the lend,lease project, Italy's debt was forgiven,France said up your a,, that is all I know about,
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Several-New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland to name a few.\nOf course there are many that are worse but our country has gone down hill so much in the past few years it is alarming!
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Africa...no question.\nThe USA only look after themselves.\n\nThe US doesn't give aid so much as cynically uses it's wealth to 'buy' global political advantage. It's never some altruistic humanitarian reason, they always demand something in return.
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You could try the CIA factbook.  It has accurate data about all of the countries in the world.
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Yes, because the USA and those other wealthy nations have usually forced these nations to take those loans in the first place. This is what happened in Latin America. During the 70's and early 80's, with puppet governments actively supported by the USA, most Latin American countries have borrowed lots of money. This money went to the pockets of a few already wealthy businessmen, or was lost to corruption. And corrupted ministers, sponsored by the American government, have passed the debt over to the state. So Latin American states contracted huge debts for money they didn't even profit. This happened with the acceptance of the US government, and to the benefit of such American people as Henry Kissinger. So, let those people (in the USA and in Latin America) pay off the debt, not the countries, which are poorer and poorer.
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Germany has most people and biggest economy, but UK has most clout around the world. However the French are the biggest moaners, so I'm not sure.
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rankng based for a succes of last rhree years: 1 Cuba 2 Serbia and Montenegro 3 Italy 4 Netherland 5 Checz republic 6 Russia 7 USA 8 Hungary 9 Brazil 10 France
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I haven't heard of anyone having any success in Africa. There is too much war and corruption in the places where help is needed most.  \nYou cannot force govts to cancel debts.  If someone represented that  to you, then you may have been hustled.\nI HAVE seen Isaiah Washington's pic on YA and him asking how to help Malaria victims in Africa.
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In terms of a foreign entity trying to call a debt issued in the entity's host country, they can go through the civil law system in that country, and sue for breach of contract. However, if it is a foreign entity trying to call a debt issued in Nigeria, then you will have to follow their procedures for debt recovery. However, given the corruption and political instability, you might have to cut your losses. It is not worth throwing good money after bad money.
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Most... United States of America...\n\nLeast... China...
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im not sure which country sent stuff but i do remember hearing that the U.S. rejected alot of stuff. i believe it was russia or maybe england
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2003, the countries with the highest life expectancies at birth are Japan (82), Andorra, Australia, Italy, Monaco, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland (81), Canada, France, Iceland, Israel, Singapore, and Spain (80).
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Years and years of borrowing massive amounts from the IMF and World Bank to build infrastructure (dams, power plants, schools, roads, etc.).  Decades of corrupt regimes that squandered and abscounded with billions upon billions.\n\nOnly recently, are many of these countries starting to get on their feet, but it took a great deal of political turmult to get there.  Uganda, for example, was a complete mess until Amin was overthrown and a new government installed.  They are prospering very nicely now.\n\nOther countries such as Ethopia, have been trashed by drought that killed their farming and rurual communities and plunged the cities into poverty.  That's a real mess.\n\nI could go on and on, but others are waiting.\n\nI hope this gives you some idea.
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Different countries have claims on settlements there but no one actually owns/governs it.\nLooks like Australia, Chile, Argentina, UK, France and New Zealand claim to own sections of it.