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    Trade and sustainable finance for development

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    The article finds that there are three major types of risk involved in an over optomistic Debt Sustainability Analysis:the disillusions if the expected performance is not achievedthe conditions attached to the lending/borrowing contracts may not be fulfilled, including the various types of conditionality, because the assumptions behind the contract itself are not realistic, and renegot
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    HIPC sovereign debt, debt relief and governance ratings

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper explores a simple modeling framework in which the probability of compliance with expectations on levels of governance and corruption are attached as conditions for debt relief.The article finds that:it should be possible to explicitly link the level of governance and corruption as a condition for obtaining debt forgiveness.
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    Indebtedness, poverty and policy in Côte d’Ivoire: responses of a formerly rich country

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper undertakes a political economy analysis of the Ivorian policymakers’ response to economic decline, rising indebtedness, mass poverty and social tension in 1990s.This article finds that:the Poverty Assessment (PA) process in the Côte d’Ivoire was a success in that it brought poverty on the agenda of the government.
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    Sovereign debt and uncertainty in the Mozambican economy

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper studies the impact of uncertainty and debt crisis on the dynamics of the Mozambican economy over the last two decades.The article finds that:the investment boom and accelerated growth did not take place until peace and economic reforms were assured, supported by the Paris Club’s role as senior creditors that averted the adverse impact of a debt overhangprivate consumptio
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    The debt service burden and growth: evidence from low income countries

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper presents an empirical investigation into the nature of the relationship between debt, investment, human development, and growth in the particular context of low and lower middle income, credit rationed economies.This article finds that:there is limited support for a broad interpretation of the debt overhang effect for these countries.
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    Debt relief, demand for education and poverty

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper aims to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of debt relief savings for poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact human capital accumulation.This simulation underlying this paper indicates that:poverty and growth objectives would be mainly enhanced if resources are targeted at the primary and secondary level of educatio
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    Simulating the effects of debt relief in Zambia

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The HIPC initiative for debt relief in the poorest countries has been extended to cover more countries, including Zambia.
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    Debt relief and growth: a study of Zambia and Tanzania.

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper discusses some issues on how to evaluate the impact of HIPC debt relief in the cases of Tanzania and Zambia using two computable general equilibrium models.The article finds that:the macroeconomic impact of debt relief seems modestin the case of Tanzania, that real GDP would grow on average 0.3 percentage units more compared with no debt reliefin the case of Zambia, w
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    AIDS, economic growth and the HIPC initiative in Honduras

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper explores how the AIDS epidemic is effecting Honduras's macroeconomic health.
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    Policies to roll-back the State and privatise?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers investigated

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The findings in this report are based on an examination of four PRSPs and twelve interim documents, along with comments made by civil society groups from developing countries.The report concludes that:across highly indebted poor countries, civil society groups are unsatisfied with the extent of public involvement in drawing up the strategy papersgovernment ownership of PRSPs is weak

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