Debt and HIPC
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- How can Heavily Indebted Poor Countries tackle their burgeoning debt?
- ( A. Presbitero (ed) / Money and Finance Research group , 2009)
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The current debt crisis in the Heavily Indebted and Poor Countries (HIPC) is hindering economic growth due to increasing bilateral loans and concessional lending, lack of macroeconomic adjustments ...
- Can Sudan achieve the Millennium Development Goals?
- ( M M Ahmed / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2008)
- This paper assesses the potential and possible pitfalls, for Sudan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This assessment is based on an analysis of past and present expenditure patterns ...
- Time for a new approach to debt relief
- ( S. Mandel / New Economics Foundation , 2008)
- This report discusses a new comprehensive approach to debt relief. ...
- 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)
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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 Pre...
- Implementation, impact and costs of the enhanced HIPC
- ( D. Leipziger;M. Allen / HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank , 2007)
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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) s...
- Is a binding framework on sovereign debt needed to tackle irresponsible lending?
- ( A. Caliari;J. Merckaert / International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity , 2007)
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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 ex...
- Does debt relief lead to increased policy space for developing countries?
- ( C. Tan / Third World Network , 2007)
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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 inte...
- The impact of debt on public service provision
- ( Jubilee Debt Campaign , 2007)
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In many of the poorest countries, the provision of decent, accessible public services is threatened by huge debt burdens and damaging policies demanded by creditors. This policy brief highlights th...
- Should heavily indebted countries have to pay back “odious” debt?
- ( V. Nehru / World Bank , 2007)
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Non-governmental and civil society organisations have increasingly called for the cancellation of “odious” debt for developing countries. This paper by the World Bank discusses the conc...
- Is debt relief in Mali worth the cost?
- ( M., D. Huse / European Network on Debt and Development , 2007)
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In the last three years, Mali’s debt stock has been reduced significantly as a result of the country’s participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and later o...
