“Jubilee Research has long called for 100 per cent cancellation of the unsustainable debts of poor countries, and we have always considered that the criterion of an ‘unsustainable’ debt is a country’s inability to discharge that debt without infringing the human rights of its population. Since the establishment of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals nearly four years ago, it has also become clear that most of the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa will be unable to reach these goals without a total cancellation of their debt and additional aid.”