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  Will debt relief make a difference?: impact and expectations of the multilateral debt relief initiative

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2006

  This paper considers the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) which is the latest phase of debt reduction for poor countries from the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank.The author highlights that the MDRI, which will come close to full debt reduction for at least 19 qualifying countries, is being presented as a momentous leap forward in the battle against global poverty
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  The new World Bank/IMF debt sustainability framework: a human development assessment

  International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2006

  This background paper assesses the Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) using the human development approach to debt sustainability as a lens: it asks whether or to what extent the DSF is consistent with it.
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  The role of external debt in current account sustainability in Uganda 1993/94 – 2004/05

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2005

  This paper assess the sustainability of Uganda’s external debt and current account position with a view to deriving general policy implications for other African countries at a similar level of development.The author outlines a number of policies to enhance current account and external debt sustainability in Africa.
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  Debt relief for the poorest: an evaluation update of the HIPC initiative

  World Bank, 2006

  This update builds on IEG’s 2003 evaluation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. About $50 billion has been committed in nominal debt service relief under the Enhanced HIPC initiative to decision point countries, of which $15.4 billion has been committed since the previous evaluation.
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  Debtor-creditor relations in good times and bad

  Jubilee Research, 2005

  This paper examines both short and long term measures aimed at improving creditor-debtor relations so that they contribute to fostering human development.It highlights that, while attention must be directed towards finding a short-term solution to the immediate problems of severely debt-distressed economies it is also critical that consideration be given to broader long-term proposals for a mor
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  Is India’s central debt sustainable? revisiting an old debate

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  In the light of a recently changes outlook for growth and interest rates, this paper revisits the proposition that India’s debt problem is unsustainable.
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  Empirical assessment of sustainability and feasibility of government debt: the Philippines case

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  This paper assesses empirically the sustainability and feasibility of the government debt situation in the Philippines.
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  Debt relief, sustainable development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Sub Sahara Africa

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This paper analyses the potential role of debt relief in supporting sustainable development that will lead to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
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  Strategic issues in managing sovereign debt for sustained development: an issues paper for the multi-stakeholder dialogue on debt

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2004

  This paper focuses on sovereign-debt related aspects of crisis prevention, both in terms of monitoring the growth of debt and in terms of ensuring an appropriate institutional and political process for its management. The paper explores how a government is to know if it has borrowed too much abroad.
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  The need for institutional changes in the global financial system: an analytical framework with application to the debt sustainability of low-income countries

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  This paper analyses causes and possible remedies regarding the failure to reform the international financial system, particularly its governance. It lays out the elements that need to be addressed when rethinking the governance mechanisms of the international financial system.

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