Sweatshops are established to produce cheap consumer goods for export, and family farmland is converted into plantations for cash crops such as coffee and sugar. In both these cases, livelihood and quality of life are compromised. The KDI says that it is concerned with human development and poverty reduction in indebted countries, but the continued reliance on Structural Adjustment makes this a dubious claim. The Jubilee movement has called for a greater role for civil society in the debt cancellation process and the dispersal of future loans and grants. The KDI makes reference to an increased consultation role for indigenous civil society, but it makes no specific plans for increased participation.
Control remains in the hands of international financial institutions.
CEJI had always advocated for the sale of gold reserves for direct debt write-off, not for funding SAPs. The global Jubilee movement has universally rejected the K ln Debt Initiative as an inappropriate response to the debt crisis. Yet the G7 has shown little movement forward, offering no new funds for debt cancellation at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in September 1999. There has been some movement on bilateral debt cancellation. There may also be positive developments at the level of international financial institutions.