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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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  A critical assessment of existing debt proposals

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper investigates some of the key issues related to the assessment of sustainability and practices aimed at enhancing external debt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa.Conclusions include:debt sustainability should be assessed by looking at many indicators simultaneously and comparing them against empirically determined critical values adjusted to account for country specific-fac
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  Minimizing the impact of commodity shocks in Africa for debt sustainability: an issues paper

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper explores various policy options for mitigating the impact of shocks (volatility of import and export commodity prices, climate) on African HIPC countries. These include insurance and hedging schemes.
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  Debt relief and fiscal sustainability

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  This paper analyses the relationship between fiscal policy, aggregate public sector debt sustainability, and debt relief. It develops a methodology to compute the fiscal policy path that is compatible with aggregate debt sustainability in the post-HIPC era.
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  Debt sustainability in low-income countries: towards a forward-looking strategy

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper provides a framework for discussion of the key issues that need to be taken into account in designing a forward-looking debt and borrowing strategy for low-income countries.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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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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  Putting sustainable development first: why countries' ability to sustain debt should be assessed from a sustainable development perspective

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  Short briefing on the intrinsic link existing between debt sustainability and sustainable development. It shows how the use of a ‘bottom-up’ approach to debt sustainability can present this relationship explicitly while at the same time giving a more precise account of what constitutes an affordable level of debt from a sustainable development perspective.

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