Debt
- Describes developments up to April 2000, including country feedback
- Debt Initiative for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, IMF, 2000
- Describes developments in the PRSP programme, including Interim PRSPs (I-PRSPs) Issues raised by recipient countries have included growth and macroeconomic stability are critical for poverty reduction, but cannot...
- Global Financial Crises: Institutions and Incentives
- Manmohan S. Kumar; Paul R. Masson; Marcus Miller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2000
- Argues that the recommendations of the Meltzer Committee report (unconditional financial support for pre-qualifying countries) would lead to an increase in financial stability. There is a need for an effective lender of last re...
- Calculates a shortfall of up to US $80 billion per year between what is being spent and what should be spent to ensure universal access to basic social services
- S. Mehrotra; J. Vandemoortele; E. Delamonica / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
- The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe wa...
- Debt relief: UK Government's Response to the Third Report from the Select Committee on International Development
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- The International Development Committee reported to the House on Debt Relief in its Third Report of Session 1997-98, published on Thursday 14 May 1998. The Government response to that Report was received on Monday 20 July 1998. It is ...
- Putting life before debt
- Development and Peace, Canada, 1997
- Policy document from two networks of Catholic development organizations, the International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the...
- Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic h...
- What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?
- D. Dollar; J. Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environment...
- Debt reduction and new loans : a contracting perspective
- John A Carlson; Aasim M Husain; Jeffrey Alan Zimmerman / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- External finance and foreign debt in central and eastern European countries
- Stefano Manzocchi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Sources of debt accumulation in a small open economy
- A Senhadji Semlali / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- It is widely believed that developing countries borrowed heavily on international financial markets based on the perception that the favorable external environment (low world interest rates and increasing commodity prices) of the 1970...
- Global Financial Crises: Institutions and Incentives
- Manmohan S. Kumar; Paul R. Masson; Marcus Miller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2000
- Argues that the recommendations of the Meltzer Committee report (unconditional financial support for pre-qualifying countries) would lead to an increase in financial stability. There is a need for an effective lender of last re...
- Calculates a shortfall of up to US $80 billion per year between what is being spent and what should be spent to ensure universal access to basic social services
- S. Mehrotra; J. Vandemoortele; E. Delamonica / UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000
- The report draws on case studies from over 30 developing countries to highlight the human cost of this shortfall in terms of lives lost, children out of school, the millions of children under-nourished and the billions without safe wa...
- Debt relief: UK Government's Response to the Third Report from the Select Committee on International Development
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- The International Development Committee reported to the House on Debt Relief in its Third Report of Session 1997-98, published on Thursday 14 May 1998. The Government response to that Report was received on Monday 20 July 1998. It is ...
- Putting life before debt
- Development and Peace, Canada, 1997
- Policy document from two networks of Catholic development organizations, the International Co-operation for Development and Solidarity (CIDSE) and Caritas Internationalis (CI), calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the...
- Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future
- Oxfam, 1998
- The Tanzanian Government has committed itself to a long-term strategy aimed at eradicating poverty by 2025. Sectoral plans have been drawn up aimed at achieving progress towards universal primary education and the expansion of basic h...
- What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?
- D. Dollar; J. Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environment...
- Debt reduction and new loans : a contracting perspective
- John A Carlson; Aasim M Husain; Jeffrey Alan Zimmerman / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- External finance and foreign debt in central and eastern European countries
- Stefano Manzocchi / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Sources of debt accumulation in a small open economy
- A Senhadji Semlali / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- It is widely believed that developing countries borrowed heavily on international financial markets based on the perception that the favorable external environment (low world interest rates and increasing commodity prices) of the 1970...
- Identity and "twisted" debt relationships in Kerala, India
- Y Uchiyamada / Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, 1999
- This is a story about what happened to people and spirits in the ancestral land when "inalienable" ancestral land was alienated. Hindu Malayalis are closely related to soil/land and ancestors in it. This intimate relationships with so...
- Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC)
- UK-based coalition campaigning to change UK policy on poor country debt
