Main points of the final communiqué issued by leaders at the G8 summit in Gleneagles

A DOUBLING of overall development aid — giving another $50 billion by 2010 — as well as the write-off of $40bn worth of debt agreed by the G8 finance ministers last month.

But Tony Blair lost his push to get all summit countries to commit to boosting foreign aid to an amount equal to 0.7% of national income by 2015.

Instead, a summit document said the European Union had agreed to that support but did not mention the US. America is currently giving 0.16% of national income, the smallest percentage of any of the G8 countries.