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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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  Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.
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  Real Progress Report on HIPC

  Jubilee Research, 2003

  This New Economics Foundation report is intended to shadow the official World Bank and IMF annual HIPC Status of Implementation Report, and states that it examines questions that the official HIPC reports do not, including:how much debt has actually been cancelled?are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relief under the HIPC initiative?is HIPC debt relief enough to a
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  Export credit agencies explained

  Export Credit Agencies International NGO Campaign, 2001

  This brief paper outlines the nature of export credit agencies (ECAs), how they impact development, the environment and human rights.The paper finds that ECAs (public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees, credits and insurance to private corporations from their home country to do business abroad) often invest in developing countries They are one of the largest sources of p
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  Through a glass darkly: new questions (and answers) about IMF programs

  Wellesley College Department of Economics, 2002

  This paper evaluates the recent research conducted on the IMF which focussed on the adoption, implementation and impact of their lending programs and their political dimensions.
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  Public debt in emerging markets: World Economic Outlook September 2003

  World Economic Outlook, 2003

  This issue of the IMF's six-monthly report looks at the state of the global economy in mid 2003. It also looks at the four more specific policy issues: How can economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region be accelerated? Are foreign exchange reserves in Asia too high? How concerned should developing countries be about G-3 exchange rate volatility?
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  Debt relief and poverty reduction: a UK submission to Phase 2 of the HIPC review

  Treasury Department, UK, 1999

  The British Government regards a closer link between debt relief and reducing poverty as the very rationale of a revived HIPC. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has described the challenges of world poverty and international debt relief as the great moral issue of our decade.
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  The impact of debt reduction under the HIPC Initiative on external debt service and social expenditures

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  As of November 2001, 24 countries had reached their decision points under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. At the decision point, the international community begins to reduce debt service payments owed by qualifying countries.
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  Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: Progress Reports

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  In 1999 Ministers endorsed enhancements to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and proposals to link debt relief, as well as overall Bank and Fund concessional lending, more closely to comprehensive development strategies described in country-owned Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs).
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  Debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative: a factsheet

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have designed a framework to provide special assistance for heavily indebted poor countries that pursue IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment and reform programs, but for whom traditional debt relief mechanisms are insufficient.

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