IMF 'denials of debt relief' triggering health and education cuts in Mozambique, 10 other lower-income countries - Debt Justice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : "The IMF is breaking its own policies by finding external debts in these countries to be sustainable, when paying debts in full is leading to large cuts in spending on key social services, and trapping countries in low economic growth," the report reads.
41% : According to the analysis by this NGO dedicated to demanding debt relief in the poorest countries, "educativo spending has been cut by 16%" and "GDP growth per person is just 1.2%, less than half the average for countries in the global South".
36% : In the eleven countries that meet these criteria, including three Portuguese-speaking countries, "real public spending per person has on average been cut by 10%, education spending cut by 16% and health spending by 18%.

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