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    Can HIPC reduce poverty in Tanzania?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This article discusses the issue debt, economic growth and poverty in Tanzania.
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    Pro-Poor conditionality for aid and debt relief in East Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper considers how the conditionality inherent in HIPC debt relief should be constituted to promote pro-poor policies.The paper argues that:the elements of debt relief conditionality should be tailored to the features of the poverty-reduction policy environment in each country and provides guidelines for the design of conditionalitythe potential for implementing poverty reduct
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    HIPC debt relief and policy reform incentives

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper discuss the incentives that the HIPC initiative could create in debtor countries in favour of economic adjustment and reform.The paper finds that:the HIPC initiative does not provide a pure debt relief, but also creates new public spending obligations, on poverty reduction programsnot all HIPCs can be considered as enjoying good economic governance, while the debt overhan
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    Should the HIPC debt relief be predicated on institutional reform?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper draws from the literature on institutional quality and economic growth and argues that in order to achieve long-term debt sustainability, HIPCs need to improve their institutions.The article argues that one way to promote good governance in HIPCs is to predicate debt relief on institutional reform.
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    Debt relief in HIPCs: fiscal policy issues

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The article concludes that:The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) contributes to poverty reductionHIPC debt relief is projected to significantly reduce the total stock of debt and generate substantial debt service savingsthere is no “one shirt fits all” solution regarding how countries should best spend the resources freed by HIPC reliefhigher social sector spending, (made
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    Debt of Cote d'Ivoire and the challenge of poverty reduction

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper aims to show how the implementation in Côte d’Ivoire of a new institution called AGEBASE, may constitute a challenge to be taken up by the country in its effort to reduce poverty in a scarcity of resources context.Paper presents the economic situation of Côte d’Ivoire. It then discuss the nature of poverty in the country and the range of possibilities offered to eliminate it.
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    Foreign debt and growth in developing countries: a sensitivity and causality analysis using panel data

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper finds that:the economic malaise due to foreign indebtedness is not limited to the HIPC group.
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    Debt relief and the rule of thumb: analytical history of HIPC debt sustainability targets

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper traces the origins of World Bank indicators of debt-distress and their employment as HIPC sustainability targets.
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    Achieving sustainable universal primary education through debt relief: the case of Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This study critically reviews the education sector in Kenya and the challenges facing the sector in achieving universal primary schooling.The study argues that the introduction of cost sharing system in Kenya has resulted in high drop out and repetition rates, low transition and completion rates.
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    Economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper argues that it is not possible to demonstrate the superiority of one economic/theological approach to debt cancellation over the other. It says that practitioners in one are likely to continue to find it difficult to respond meaningfully to arguments from the other.Paper keeps returning to the problem of commensurability.

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