Structural adjustment
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Ugandan pastoral households became better off during the early 1990s
- ( W.K. Monte; P. Katebalirwe / Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users , 2002)
- This study investigates the impact of the structural adjustment policies initiated in the early 1990s, on pastoral economies in Uganda. Drawing on interviews conducted in 1996 of 90 households in Ngom...
- How African women lose out in labour market liberalisation
- ( African Labour Research Network , 2004)
- This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on th...
- Alternatives for African development
- ( A. Ismi / Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives , 2004)
- This paper critically assess IMF and World Bank policies of the last decades. In doing so the paper highlights the dominance of the U.S. within the IMF and World Bank. The main focus of the assessment...
- Report criticises international financial treatment of South Asia
- ( K. Achary / South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation , 2003)
- This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequali...
- What are the best policies for responding to potential financial crises?
- ( N. Roubini; B. Setser / Institute for International Economics, USA , 2004)
- Following the East Asian crisis there have been many calls for reforming international financial structure. However, this book argues that these sweeping institutional reforms are not necessary. Rathe...
- How inequality reproduces itself and gives further incentives to the rich.
- ( T.W Pogge / Development Gateway , 2004)
- This paper offers four skeptical reflections on the interpretation of the target of Goal 1 of the MDGs (i.e. halving extreme poverty worldwide by 2015) and the measurement of progress towards achievin...
- Evaluating the economic impact of adjustment policies on the Sudanese economy
- ( A. Bannaga / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2004)
- This paper seeks to assess the impact of adjustment reforms on Sudan taking the current account balance as policy performance indicator. The author shows that the government own reforms were more effe...
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