Debt
- More needed if full benefit of debt cancellation to be felt in developing countries
- S. Williams; T. Rogers / Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2008
- Although progress has been made on Debt since the issue was pushed to the top of the G8 agenda in 1998 ($88bn of debt has been cancelled) this paper from the Jubilee Campaign asserts that far more needs to be done in order to ef...
- Social justice and debt: changing the landscape
- H. Northover / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2008
- This paper addresses some of the policy positions that underpinned the Jubilee 2000 campaign. It particularly focuses on the point that while the arguments of debt campaigners were, at the time, dismissed as the politics of naïve...
- Will the HIPC-MRDI framework succeed in reaching and maintaining long-term external debt sustainability?
- J. Nwachukwu / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- This paper applies a growth-with-debt model to sixteen post-completion point HIPCs. This is in order to assess if the enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative will reduce the Net Present Values (NPV) of poor country for...
- Critical conditions: the IMF maintains its grip on low-income governments
- N. Molina; J. Pereira / European Network on Debt and Development, 2008
- Faced with strong criticism for its expansive and poor use of conditionality, and in the wake of a financial crisis, in 2002 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a set of guidelines to inform its use of structural condi...
- Are the criticisms of Chinese aid policy in Africa justified?
- M. Dahle Huse; S. L. Muyakwa / Norwegian Council for Africa, 2008
- China has had bad press regarding its involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. Its lack of aid conditionality – particularly in the field of human rights and environmental issues; its apparent disregard for transparency in the loan co...
- Examining the effects of debt on the provision of healthcare
- Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2007
- Developing country governments will struggle to invest in decent public health facilities when valuable resources are needed to service debt. However, the evidence is that debt relief works to alleviate healthcare shortages - spe...
- Analysing long-term debt sustainability
- M. Martin / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2007
- Since the 1970s, there has been a growing economic literature analysing how to decide whether a country’s debt is “sustainable”. More recently however the international community has also tried to define thresholds t...
- Implementation, impact and costs of the enhanced HIPC
- D. Leipziger; M. Allen / HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2007
- This report provides an update on the status of implementation, impact and costs of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) since mid-2006. It also discusses the ...
- Is a binding framework on sovereign debt needed to tackle irresponsible lending?
- A. Caliari; J. Merckaert / International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2007
- Irresponsible lending and the lack of creditor accountability for it are arguably at the very heart of the endless string of creditor-driven attempts to grant indebted countries “a lasting exit” from debt problems. This pa...
- Does debt relief lead to increased policy space for developing countries?
- C. Tan / Third World Network, 2007
- Following the G8 meeting at Gleneagles in 2005, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) was introduced, aiming to cancel 100 percent of eligible debt stock owed by eligible countries to international financial institutions. Thi...
- More needed if full benefit of debt cancellation to be felt in developing countries
- S. Williams; T. Rogers / Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2008
- Although progress has been made on Debt since the issue was pushed to the top of the G8 agenda in 1998 ($88bn of debt has been cancelled) this paper from the Jubilee Campaign asserts that far more needs to be done in order to ef...
- Social justice and debt: changing the landscape
- H. Northover / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2008
- This paper addresses some of the policy positions that underpinned the Jubilee 2000 campaign. It particularly focuses on the point that while the arguments of debt campaigners were, at the time, dismissed as the politics of naïve...
- Will the HIPC-MRDI framework succeed in reaching and maintaining long-term external debt sustainability?
- J. Nwachukwu / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- This paper applies a growth-with-debt model to sixteen post-completion point HIPCs. This is in order to assess if the enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative will reduce the Net Present Values (NPV) of poor country for...
- Critical conditions: the IMF maintains its grip on low-income governments
- N. Molina; J. Pereira / European Network on Debt and Development, 2008
- Faced with strong criticism for its expansive and poor use of conditionality, and in the wake of a financial crisis, in 2002 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a set of guidelines to inform its use of structural condi...
- Are the criticisms of Chinese aid policy in Africa justified?
- M. Dahle Huse; S. L. Muyakwa / Norwegian Council for Africa, 2008
- China has had bad press regarding its involvement in sub-Saharan Africa. Its lack of aid conditionality – particularly in the field of human rights and environmental issues; its apparent disregard for transparency in the loan co...
- Examining the effects of debt on the provision of healthcare
- Jubilee Debt Campaign, 2007
- Developing country governments will struggle to invest in decent public health facilities when valuable resources are needed to service debt. However, the evidence is that debt relief works to alleviate healthcare shortages - spe...
- Analysing long-term debt sustainability
- M. Martin / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2007
- Since the 1970s, there has been a growing economic literature analysing how to decide whether a country’s debt is “sustainable”. More recently however the international community has also tried to define thresholds t...
- Implementation, impact and costs of the enhanced HIPC
- D. Leipziger; M. Allen / HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2007
- This report provides an update on the status of implementation, impact and costs of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) since mid-2006. It also discusses the ...
- Is a binding framework on sovereign debt needed to tackle irresponsible lending?
- A. Caliari; J. Merckaert / International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2007
- Irresponsible lending and the lack of creditor accountability for it are arguably at the very heart of the endless string of creditor-driven attempts to grant indebted countries “a lasting exit” from debt problems. This pa...
- Does debt relief lead to increased policy space for developing countries?
- C. Tan / Third World Network, 2007
- Following the G8 meeting at Gleneagles in 2005, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) was introduced, aiming to cancel 100 percent of eligible debt stock owed by eligible countries to international financial institutions. Thi...
- Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)
- UK-based coalition campaigning to change UK policy on poor country debt
