the epilogue to the 2006 edition provides a rebuttal to the current move by the g8 nations to forgive third world debt. perkins charges that the proposed conditions for this debt forgiveness require countries to privatise their health, education, electric, water and other public services. those countries would also have to discontinue subsidies and trade restrictions that support local business, but accept the continued subsidization of certain g8 businesses by the us and other g8 countries, and the erection of trade barriers on imports that threaten g8 industries.