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    Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: analysis and recommendations on LDC debt

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper addresses the question how large the debt burden of LDCs actually is and how this burden affects the LDCs path to social and economic development. It describes current efforts to reduce the debt burden.
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    Debt forgiveness; the case for hyper-incentive contracts

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper reviews two proposals for debt forgiveness; the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) and the Jubilee 2000 Coalition Initiative (J2K).It then considers the workhorse model of debt forgiveness, and shows that this solution is a sub-optimal contract, where the incentive parameter ignores the cost of effort.
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    The HIPC relief: too late, too little? Perspectives from a new qualifier, Tanzania

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper attempts an assessment of the potency of the HIPC initiative in addressing the key agenda items in Tanzania: poverty reduction/eradication and resolving the external debt burden.
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    Debt and the PRSP conditionality: the Kenya case

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper examines the current debt problem in Kenya and the options available for funding emerging priorities as identified in the PRSP.The paper concludes that implementing a PRSP would only be effective after the high debt burden is resolved, structural and institutional weakness addressed and significant growth achieved.
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    Debt relief and health care in Kenya

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,
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    Emerging from a debt trap in a crisis-ridden country: lessons from Zimbabwe

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Is Zimbabwe's experience symptomatic of a structural adjustment programme (SAP) or is simply a result of 'local' mismanagement? This paper attempts to show that, while the last of these reasons predominates, there are lessons to be drawn by a wider audience. Paper reviews the origins of the debt problem in Zimbabwe, and considers whether Zimbabwean debt is sustainable.
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    Macroeconomic framework for poverty reduction within the context of debt relief: the case of Ghana

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper examines Ghana's inadequacy of redistribution and the damaging effects of past policies. It proposes a macroeconomic framework, which must restore and maintain a stable and predictable macroeconomic environment and address the persistent and entrenched government budgetary imbalances. It presents an action plan to fulfil these objectives.
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    Unsustainable debt burden and poverty in Pakistan: a case for enhancing HIPC initiative

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The paper examines the unsustainable debt burden of Pakistan. It discusses the external debt burden of Pakistan and compares Pakistan’s debt burden with the other developing countries including heavily indebted poor countries.
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    Will HIPC matter?: the debt game and donor behavior in Africa

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Will the HIPC debt reduction program help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the “debt game” in Africa?
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    The uncertainty of debt service repayments and economic growth of highly indebted poor countries: is there a case for debt relief?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper investigates whether and to what extent the uncertainty with respect to the annual debt service payments may adversely affect economic growth of the group of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).Paper finds supportive evidence for this hypothesis.

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