This year's annual jamboree of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington two weeks ago has deservedly earned a bad press. Their neglect of poor countries' debts is their most serious failing.
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No relief from poverty's debt. Nature 341, 471–472 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/341471a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/341471a0