Debt
- Progress report on the HIPC and MDRI initiatives
- D. Leipziger; M. Allen / International Monetary Fund, 2006
- The report concludes that the volume of debt relief has increased significantly since the inception of the HIPC Initiative in 1996, thereby reducing HIPCs’ debt service burdens and allowing them to finance increased poverty reduc...
- What factors enable countries to pursue their own development agendas?
- A. Menocal; S. Mulley / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- This paper reviews the efforts of five countries seen as relatively successful examples of recipient-led aid policies and donor management. These countries are Afghanistan, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. From this r...
- Addressing odious lending
- New Economics Foundation, 2006
- This paper demonstrates the impact of odious debt - whereby creditors knowingly lent vast sums to oppressive and corrupt regimes. It examines how the impact continues to grow until the loan is cancelled and outlines a proposal to addr...
- Investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth
- A.F. Presbitero / Università Cattolica, Italy, 2005
- This paper investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth, with a particular attention to LICs, for which the theoretical arguments of debt overhang and liquidity constraint have to be reconsidered. ...
- Examining debt sustainability
- 2006
- This handbook clarifies different conceptions of debt sustainability. It points out problems with official definitions and frameworks that are applied by the international financial institutions and other creditor instances of credito...
- Towards more equitable loan conditions for developing countries
- European Network on Debt and Development, 2006
- This paper explores how the international community currently deals with arrears clearance operations, in particular to the international financial institutions (IFIs). Currently, for all developing countries the total amount of exter...
- Assessing the G8 commitments since Gleneagles
- Eldis News Weblog, 2006
- Written on the first anniversary of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, this commentary by an Eldis editor assesses the success of the round of talks. Amidst a huge campaign to Make Poverty History leaders committed to increasing aid and can...
- New approaches to debt cancellation
- New Economics Foundation, 2006
- This NEF research paper proposes a radical new approach to debt cancellation - based on the amount of revenue that a government can be expected to raise without increasing poverty or compromising the meeting of basic human needs. This...
- Assessing the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
- T. Moss / Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
- This paper considers the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) which is the latest phase of debt reduction for poor countries from the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank. The author highlights that the M...
- Exploring the relationship between debt and growth for a number of developing and industrial economies.
- A. Schclarek / Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden, 2004
- This paper investigates both the linear and nonlinear relationship between debt and economic growth for developing and industrial countries. Further, it seeks to determine the channels through which debt affects economic growth, by consider...
- What factors enable countries to pursue their own development agendas?
- A. Menocal; S. Mulley / Overseas Development Institute, 2006
- This paper reviews the efforts of five countries seen as relatively successful examples of recipient-led aid policies and donor management. These countries are Afghanistan, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. From this r...
- Addressing odious lending
- New Economics Foundation, 2006
- This paper demonstrates the impact of odious debt - whereby creditors knowingly lent vast sums to oppressive and corrupt regimes. It examines how the impact continues to grow until the loan is cancelled and outlines a proposal to addr...
- Investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth
- A.F. Presbitero / Università Cattolica, Italy, 2005
- This paper investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth, with a particular attention to LICs, for which the theoretical arguments of debt overhang and liquidity constraint have to be reconsidered. ...
- Examining debt sustainability
- 2006
- This handbook clarifies different conceptions of debt sustainability. It points out problems with official definitions and frameworks that are applied by the international financial institutions and other creditor instances of credito...
- Towards more equitable loan conditions for developing countries
- European Network on Debt and Development, 2006
- This paper explores how the international community currently deals with arrears clearance operations, in particular to the international financial institutions (IFIs). Currently, for all developing countries the total amount of exter...
- Assessing the G8 commitments since Gleneagles
- Eldis News Weblog, 2006
- Written on the first anniversary of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, this commentary by an Eldis editor assesses the success of the round of talks. Amidst a huge campaign to Make Poverty History leaders committed to increasing aid and can...
- New approaches to debt cancellation
- New Economics Foundation, 2006
- This NEF research paper proposes a radical new approach to debt cancellation - based on the amount of revenue that a government can be expected to raise without increasing poverty or compromising the meeting of basic human needs. This...
- Assessing the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
- T. Moss / Center for Global Development, USA, 2006
- This paper considers the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) which is the latest phase of debt reduction for poor countries from the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank. The author highlights that the M...
- Exploring the relationship between debt and growth for a number of developing and industrial economies.
- A. Schclarek / Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden, 2004
- This paper investigates both the linear and nonlinear relationship between debt and economic growth for developing and industrial countries. Further, it seeks to determine the channels through which debt affects economic growth, by consider...
- Progess report on the Gleneagles G8 summit: one year on
- Oxfam, 2006
- One year after the G8 Summit at Gleneagels (2005), this paper examines progress that has been made since then in the areas of debt, aid, conflict, trade, and climate change. Debt Cancellation: in January 2006, the IMF cancelled...
- Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)
- UK-based coalition campaigning to change UK policy on poor country debt
