Debt relief and growth
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- Are developing countries heading towards a new debt crisis?
- ( S. Edwards / Jubilee Debt Campaign , 2009)
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The global financial crisis is already having a severe effect on the developing world. Many prominent donor countries have announced draconian cuts to their overseas aid budgets; falling global dem...
- More needed if full benefit of debt cancellation to be felt in developing countries
- ( S. Williams;T. Rogers / Jubilee Debt Campaign , 2008)
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Although progress has been made on Debt since the issue was pushed to the top of the G8 agenda in 1998 ($88bn of debt has been cancelled) this paper from the Jubilee Campaign asserts that far...
Social justice and debt: changing the landscape
- ( H. Northover / Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University , 2008)
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This paper addresses some of the policy positions that underpinned the Jubilee 2000 campaign. It particularly focuses on the point that while the arguments of debt campaigners were, at the time, di...
- How did India’s debt to GDP ratio increase in 2005/06 from the 1980’s?
- ( G. Pang;B. Pinto;M. Wes / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 2007)
- This paper examines the links between the public finances and growth in the post-1991 period in India. It particularly focuses on addressing how over the past 25 years, India’s economy has grown...
- Debt cancellation provides relief to women and girls
- ( Oxfam , 2007)
- When highly indebted countries spend large proportions of government revenue on debt repayments, they don't spend it on social services for the poor. This report advocates for debt cancellation on th...
- Review of the World Bank’s Development Policy Lending
- ( J. Walliser / World Bank , 2006)
- This paper reviews the performance over the preceding two years of the World Bank’s new comprehensive operational policy governing all fast-disbursing policy-based lending. In addition to providing an...
- 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 cons...
- 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 d...
- Putting the Monterrey Consensus into action: past lessons and future steps
- ( UN , 2005)
- The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Developme...
- The effect of foreign debt on growth in low income countries
- ( B. Clements; R. Bhattacharya; T. Nguyen / International Monetary Fund , 2005)
- Attempting to fill a gap in the literature, this paper examines the effect of foreign debt on growth with a particular focus on low income countries. It assesses empirically the effects of external de...
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