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  Dampening the vulnerability to price shocks: a role for aid

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the effects of price shocks on developing countries, and discusses what kind of global measures may be implemented to avoid negative outcomes.
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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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  Reality bites: a rebuttal of the IMF’s "Common criticisms: some responses"

  Center of Concern, COC, 2003

  This article presents a rebuttal of the IMF's document "Common criticisms: some responses".
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  Moldova's transition to destitution

  SIDA Studies, 2000

  Reviews and analysis of events and issues which have led to Moldova’s severe peacetime decline in economic performance and living standards during the past decade.
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  The profits of famine: Southern Africa's long decade of hunger

  Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2002

  This article explores the causes of famine and chronic malnutrition in Southern Africa.
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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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  When is external debt sustainable?

  Debt Initiative for Highly Indebted Poor Countries, World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyzes the probability of 'debt distress' in developing countries and examines the implications of these results for the lending policies of official creditors and the borrowing strategies of low income debtor countries.It defines debt distress episodes as periods in which countries resort to exceptional financing in any one of three ways:incur substantial arrears on their
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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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  Effects of the foreign debt burden on saving ratios in the CEMAC zone

  Latin American Network Information Centre, University of Texas, 2003

  Given the increasing scarcity in foreign aid, the poor saving performance in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past three decades is a matter of grave concern. So what is the cause of the effect of this poor saving in the central African sub-region (the CEMAC Zone)?
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  Call for establishment of a fair and transparent arbitration mechanism on debt

  African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, 2002

  This policy briefing states that a fundamental weakness in the current debt crisis is that the creditors, (donors) continue to dominate the decision making regarding how to resolve the Debt crisis.

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