The aspect of point 2 seized on by just about all the media at the time was good government practices, like transparency, anticorruption measures, and credible legal frameworks. The other aspect of point 2, macroeconomic stability, private-sector development, and removing impediments to private investment, domestic and foreign, together with bits on free trade and open markets in later points, went almost unmentioned. Here we find the G8 countries, or rather their treasury departments, in collusion with the IFIs, telling poor countries how they must run their economies if they want to receive debt relief. Just as the “deserving poor” are made to do the repentance shuffle to earn a charitable handout, or the homeless pretend instant arm-waving Christian conversion to get a bed for the night, now we find the rich countries telling the poor countries of the world how they must “reform” to get their debt relief.