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  To lend or to grant?: a critical view of the IMF and World Bank’s proposed approach to debt sustainability analyses for low-income countries

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper critiques a new framework to debt sustainability developed by the IMF.It welcomes elements of the new approach:the HIPC Initiative’s debt-to-exports criterion, was a weak predictor of future debt sustainability.
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  An alternative approach to debt cancellation and new borrowing for Africa

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper critically analyses the HIPC Initiative and its effects on debt sustainability and the recipient countries’ capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Financing debt relief and genuine development: time to get serious?

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  Assessments of Africa’s financing needs and prospects for debt relief need to be put in the wider context of financing for development. The paper argues that debt relief is an important source of finance for African countries but on its own will be woefully insufficient to allow African countries to finance the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and achieve long-term debt sustainability.
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  The IMF and the Millennium Goals: failing to deliver for low income countries

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper states that the IMF plays a key role in defining how much governments can spend, based on their definition of what countries' stabilised macro-economic policies ought to be.
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  Debt and the Millennium Development Goals

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper sets out the policy actions required by the World Bank, IMF, and bilateral donors if their stated commitment to the fulfilment of the MDGs is to be taken seriously. In committing to finance the MDGs, the donor community has set itself a huge challenge .
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  Are the MDGs feasible?

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2002

  This paper argues that if MDGs appear feasible at the global level, it does not necessarily imply that they will be feasible in all nations or at all locations. Averages are commonly used at each level to measure MDG progress, which can be quite misleading.
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  A joint submission to the World Bank and IMF Review of HIPC and Debt Sustainability

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2002

  Urges that a clear link be established between MDGs, the HIPC review, and the sustainability of debt relief. It reccommends a series of steps to mobilise necessary financial flows, and proposes that the World Bank and IMF and their shareholders ought to radically alter the way in which debt relief is calculated and provided.
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  The unbreakable link: debt relief and the millennium development goals

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  This report tracks the progress of poor countries towards debt sustainability under the HIPC initiative; as well as likely progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The article concludes that:the British Chancellor’s welcome proposal for an increase in OECD aid by $50bn a year will prove ineffectual in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countri

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