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  Survival of small-scale manufacturing in Cairo during structural adjustment results from a long-term study

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000

  The structural adjustment policy in Egypt has caused a dramatic decline in demand for many goods produced in the handicraft sector.Through this study, it has become clear that small-scale manufacturing in Cairo is able to survive even in times of deteriorating economic conditions and growing competition from expanding modern industry.The major advantage of these small enterprises lies in the
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  Roundtables on Latin American middle-income country experience: Lessons and implications

  World Bank Publications, 2002

  The International IDEA, the World Bank and the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES) have co-operated on a series of 'national dialogue' round tables in Latin America, and the conclusions of these round table meetings are summarised in this new jointly-published report.
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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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  Restructuring Uganda's debt: the commercial debt buy-back operation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The paper describes Uganda’s buy-back operation in detail and concludes that the offer by the Government of Uganda to buy-back its uninsured commercial debt at a discount of 88 percent of face value was extremely successful. Of the total eligible debt of US$188 million, debt worth US$153 million was bought back, reflecting a participation rate in excess of 80 percent.
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  External debt and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries: an econometric study

  African Economic Research Consortium, 1999

  This paper assesses whether the cancellation of debt could provide the stimulus to investment recovery and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  The sustainability of the current account deficit and external debt in Vietnam

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001

  The objective of this study is to examine Vietnams current account deficit and external debt sustainability in the 1990s, and the period 2001-10.The study finds that: During 1989-99, the current account deficit and external debt of Vietnam were sustainable. In general, imports were substantially restrained in comparison with the levels it could have reached, except for the year 1996
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  Delivering on debt relief: from IMF gold to a new aid architecture

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  Over the last several years,the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries,or HIPCs.Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries’ debt burdens to levels that would allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and to promote a new way of assi
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  A new approach to sovereign debt restructuring

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  A paper which draws togerther the latest IMF thinking on the issue of sovereign debt. The paper outlines the problems stemming from recent changes in the nature of international borrowing and explores the need for, objectives and possible features of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.The potential role of the IMF in this process is explored in both financial and operational terms.
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  Sovereign debt restructurings and the domestic economy experience in four recent cases

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  This paper provides evidence on the impact of sovereign debt restructurings on the domestic economy using four recent cases where governments decided to default on parts or all of their debt (Ecuador, Russia) or to reach a restructuring with creditors under the shadow of default (Pakistan, Ukraine).
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  The case for an international insolvency court

  Jubilee Research, 1999

  This article argues that the establishment of an International Insolvency Court (IIC) to deal with countries in extreme cases of sovereign debt is urgently required as existing mechanisms have failed to reduce the burden of debt with the scope and urgency required.

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