Debt
- Shopping for jurisdictions: a problem for international Chapter 9 insolvency?
- K. Raffer / Jubilee Research, 2002
- In this paper Prof. Kunibert Raffer, the Viennese academic who first unearthed Chapter 9 of the US legal code as a model for international bankruptcy, has drafted a response to the IMF, who are insist...
- The strategic significance of global inequality
- J. D. Sachs / Jubilee Research, 2001
- Is there a "strategic significance" to global inequalities in income levels and economic growth, and, if so, which policies might the United States pursue to address those strategic concerns? This pap...
- It takes two to tango: creditor co-responsibility for Argentina’s crisis and the need for independent resolution
- A. Pettifor; L. Cisneros; A. Olmos Gaona / Jubilee Research, 2001
- The article finds that:the Argentinian foreign debt repayment situation is so serious, that Argentina can be considered to be effectively insolventArgentina's creditors must expect to take...
- Trade and sustainable finance for development
- G. Vaggi / Jubilee Research, 2001
- The article finds that there are three major types of risk involved in an over optomistic Debt Sustainability Analysis:the disillusions if the expected performance is not achievedthe condi...
- HIPC: flogging a dead process
- A. Pettifor; B. Thomas; M. Telatin / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article reviews and criticises the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.The article shows that:all 23 HIPCs will very soon have unsustainable levels of debt again, if real...
- The use of central banks to spread ownership
- S. Turnbull / Jubilee Research, 2001
- The objective of this article is to allow any concerned citizen or politician to participate in a public policy debate on reforming the practices of central bankers, international banking, multi-later...
- Will the proposed new Basel Capital Accord have a net negative effect on developing countries?
- S. Griffith-Jones; S. Spratt / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article discusses the Basel Capital Adequacy Accord and its role in bank regulation. Agreement was reached in this accord between the member countries of the Basel Committee, that a minimum capit...
- The urgent need for economic transformation: subordinating the interests of finance capital to human rights
- A. Pettifor / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article attempts to challenge the dominance of finance capital in our global economy.The article stresses that if we wish to avoid a return to the deflationary era of the 1920's and 1930's, th...
- Pakistan's debt position and the question of debt retirement
- Q. Aslam / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article explores Pakistan's debt, its crippling debt repayments and the conditionalities enforced by IMF and World Bank on Pakistan. Some of these conditionalities include:bring about str...
- Financing corruption and repression: the case of Kenya and the IFIs
- A. Pettifor / Jubilee Research, 2001
- This article attempts to show that in Kenya the IMF’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) is less a strategy for poverty reduction and civil society participation; more a strategy for providing securit...
