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	<title>ONE &#187; IMF Debt Relief for Liberia</title>
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		<title>More on Liberia&#8217;s Debt Buyback Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/17/more-on-liberias-debt-buyback-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2009/04/17/more-on-liberias-debt-buyback-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andreas.Huebers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After freeing itself from a civil war, Liberia is now freeing itself from another major impediment to its development: a mountain of foreign debt. Little more than a year ago, Liberia&#8217;s foreign debt totaled $4.9 billion, equivalent to 700% of Liberia&#8217;s national income. This basically means all Liberians would have had to work for seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Money! Where Will Liberia&#8217;s Debt Relief Go?</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/20/follow-the-where-will-liberias-debt-relief-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/20/follow-the-where-will-liberias-debt-relief-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Lozman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you again for all the work you all have done to help move Liberia&#8217;s debt cancellation forward. There have been some questions about the future use of this debt cancellation money. I want to provide with you some facts and figures. 
First, in order to qualify for the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Acknowledges Emails&#8217; Role in Liberia Debt Relief!</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/15/imf-acknowledges-emails-role-in-liberia-debt-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/15/imf-acknowledges-emails-role-in-liberia-debt-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Steve Radelet reported here on the ONE Blog on Monday, after a 18 month delay, the IMF is finally moving ahead with debt relief for Liberia!  
Yesterday, the director of the IMF&#8217;s External Relations Department issued a statement::
&#8220;We have received a large volume of emails on this topic, so this letter is being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News on Liberia!</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/12/good-news-on-liberia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/11/12/good-news-on-liberia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ONE.Partners</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all,
The IMF has finally come up with its financing arrangements, after 18 months of pushing and prodding. This is not yet debt relief – it just allows Liberia to now (!!) start the process. But is the big first step.
Thanks to all. You folks really were a big piece of this. It is amazing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia President To Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/30/liberia-president-to-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/30/liberia-president-to-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, President George W. Bush announced the 2007 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation&#8217;s highest civil award. 
Among the 7 recipients is Liberia&#8217;s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
From the White House&#8217;s press release:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has helped heal a country torn apart by conflict through perseverance, personal courage, and an unwavering commitment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Action: Tell the IMF to Act on Liberia Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/23/take-action-tell-the-imf-to-act-on-liberia-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/23/take-action-tell-the-imf-to-act-on-liberia-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Peck, ONE.org</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often use our voices to tell our elected officials to support anti-global poverty legislation that is months or even years in the making. But today is different. Today we can take action on a critical international situation ripped from the headlines.
As the Financial Times reports:
The International Monetary Fund faced harsh criticism on Thursday for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia&#8217;s Debt and the IMF in the News</title>
		<link>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/18/liberias-debt-and-the-imf-in-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/18/liberias-debt-and-the-imf-in-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IMF Debt Relief for Liberia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Development expert Steve Radelet wrote an important piece on the state of debt relief in Liberia on Nicholas  Kristof&#8217;s NYT blog earlier this month.
Radelet writes:

&#8220;Liberia is beginning to rebound from its devastating civil war and the monstrous incompetence of [the country's former Presidents] Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor that nearly destroyed the country.
Liberia is [...]]]></description>
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