Debt
- Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative
- A R Boote; Kamau Thugge / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-m...
- An Analysis of External Debt and Capital Flight in the Severely Indebted Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
- S Ibi Ajayi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Over the past 15 years, the external debt burden in many of the severely indebted low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened. As the severity of external indebtedness has increased in this region, so has capital flight. T...
- External debt statistics (selected data online)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- OECD is the major source of creditor-based statistics on external debt. Debt stock and debt service statistics are available by category of debt, with world-wide coverage of non-OECD countries, for the period 1983 to 1995, as well as ...
- External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries - Lessons from Their Experience
- Ray Brooks; Mariano Cortes; Francesca Fornasari; Benoit Ketchekmen; Ydahlia Metzgen / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998
- The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s. An analysis of developments in a sample of ten countries shows the main factors behind the buildup of debt to be a combinati...
- Interest rates, credit and economic adjustment in Nicaragua
- Ulrich Lachler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Nicaragua's dollar equivalent and real interest rates are not unusually high by regional standards. A sustained reduction of interest rates below the regional average may be possible, but would require further major structural reform....
- Report to US Congress on reform of the development banks and the international finance regime
- A.H. Meltzer / International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
- Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilities The report looking at the future of seven ke...
- Trade policies, macroeconomic adjustment, and manufactured exports : theLatin American experience
- Sarath Rajapatirana / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Trade policies cannot resolve current account problems. Their effect on the current account disappears after three years. Rajapatirana examines the relationship between trade policies and macroeconomic adjustment in six Latin A...
- Fiscal and monetary contraction in Chile : a rational - expectations approach
- Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel; Luis Serven / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- To analyze the probable macroeconomic impact of fiscal and monetary retrenchment in Chile, an open economy, dynamic rational expectations macroeconomic model is applied to data for Chile. For the past two decades, Chile has con...
- Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response
- Ramon Lopez; John Nash; Julie Stanton / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico. But measures such as decoupling income supports and price supports or reorienting research and extension could help farmers who cannot afford acce...
- The External Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative
- G. Esquivel; B. Felipe Larraín; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998
- Reviews the foreign debt burden in Central America with special emphasis on Honduras and Nicaragua, which have a large debt overhang. Several indicators suggest that this foreign debt seriously impedes economic growth in both nations....
- An Analysis of External Debt and Capital Flight in the Severely Indebted Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
- S Ibi Ajayi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Over the past 15 years, the external debt burden in many of the severely indebted low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened. As the severity of external indebtedness has increased in this region, so has capital flight. T...
- External debt statistics (selected data online)
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- OECD is the major source of creditor-based statistics on external debt. Debt stock and debt service statistics are available by category of debt, with world-wide coverage of non-OECD countries, for the period 1983 to 1995, as well as ...
- External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries - Lessons from Their Experience
- Ray Brooks; Mariano Cortes; Francesca Fornasari; Benoit Ketchekmen; Ydahlia Metzgen / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998
- The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s. An analysis of developments in a sample of ten countries shows the main factors behind the buildup of debt to be a combinati...
- Interest rates, credit and economic adjustment in Nicaragua
- Ulrich Lachler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Nicaragua's dollar equivalent and real interest rates are not unusually high by regional standards. A sustained reduction of interest rates below the regional average may be possible, but would require further major structural reform....
- Report to US Congress on reform of the development banks and the international finance regime
- A.H. Meltzer / International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000
- Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilities The report looking at the future of seven ke...
- Trade policies, macroeconomic adjustment, and manufactured exports : theLatin American experience
- Sarath Rajapatirana / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Trade policies cannot resolve current account problems. Their effect on the current account disappears after three years. Rajapatirana examines the relationship between trade policies and macroeconomic adjustment in six Latin A...
- Fiscal and monetary contraction in Chile : a rational - expectations approach
- Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel; Luis Serven / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- To analyze the probable macroeconomic impact of fiscal and monetary retrenchment in Chile, an open economy, dynamic rational expectations macroeconomic model is applied to data for Chile. For the past two decades, Chile has con...
- Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers' wealth affects supply response
- Ramon Lopez; John Nash; Julie Stanton / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico. But measures such as decoupling income supports and price supports or reorienting research and extension could help farmers who cannot afford acce...
- The External Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative
- G. Esquivel; B. Felipe Larraín; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998
- Reviews the foreign debt burden in Central America with special emphasis on Honduras and Nicaragua, which have a large debt overhang. Several indicators suggest that this foreign debt seriously impedes economic growth in both nations....
- Reports on the international financial architecture [International Financial Crisis / Transparency and Accountability / Strengthening Financial Systems]
- World Bank, 1998
- Motivated by Asian financial crisis, reports from 3 working groups examine issues related to the stability of the international financial system and the effective functioning of global capital markets. recommendations include: ...
- Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)
- UK-based coalition campaigning to change UK policy on poor country debt
