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  Shopping for jurisdictions: a problem for international Chapter 9 insolvency?

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  In this paper Prof. Kunibert Raffer, the Viennese academic who first unearthed Chapter 9 of the US legal code as a model for international bankruptcy, has drafted a response to the IMF, who are insisting that the Fund must play a crucial role in the bankruptcy process, to protect sovereign debtors from so-called "Vulture" Funds.
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  New World Bank reports confirm that the HIPC initiative is failing

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Analysis of two recent World Bank reports to assess how the HIPC initiative is progressing using the Bank's own criteria.
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  External debt and growth

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  This paper attempts to analyse the impact of debt on growth, by using a panel database of 93 countries between 1969 and 1998.
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  Structural adjustment in the name of the poor: the PRSP experience in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam

  Focus on the Global South, 2002

  Critique of the PRSP process globally, with commentary on initial experiences in the Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam.The report questions the quantity and quaility of consultation in the 3 countries, highlighting: limited time given to consultationmediation of participation through structures controlled by government and large institutionsGovernment policy was being re-directed to
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  Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006

  This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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  On the empirics of foreign aid and growth

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  Looks at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate: the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries.
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  The unbreakable link: debt relief and the millennium development goals

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  This report tracks the progress of poor countries towards debt sustainability under the HIPC initiative; as well as likely progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The article concludes that:the British Chancellor’s welcome proposal for an increase in OECD aid by $50bn a year will prove ineffectual in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countri
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  The HIPC initiative in Bolivia

  Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000

  This paper discusses the implementation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiative in Bolivia. It examines why the comparatively rich Bolivia qualifies for debt relief and traces the history of HIPC initiatives in Bolivia. The paper then looks at the assumptions on which the most recent Enhanced initiative is based. and the contents of the initative.
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  The role and effectiveness of development assistance

  World Bank, 2002

  Examines a broad range of evidence on both the successes and failures of development assistance over the past 50 years.
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  The Debt Relief Initiative and public health spending in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs)

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001

  The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative is the first international effort to reduce the external debt of the world’s poorest, most heavily indebted countries, and represents an important step forward in placing debt relief within an overall framework of poverty reduction.

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