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    Debt relief: still failing the poor

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper argues that many developing countries will still be spending more on debt than on basic education or health after receiving HIPC debt relief. It further states that the World Bank has used wildly optimistic growth projections for the 22 HIPC countries.
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    Uganda's external debt and the HIPC initiative

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper examines Uganda's experience with external debt and debt-relief measures. Emphasis is placed on the country's experience with the HIPC I (the original HIPC) and HIPC II (the Enhanced HIPC) initiatives, and their relevance to poverty reduction.Paper retraces Uganda's debt problems and gives a chronological overview of its debt-relief experiences.
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    Aid, public sector fiscal behaviour and developing country debt

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper looks at public sector debt in developing countries, being concerned specifically with the relationship between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing requirement net of aid loans.
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    Debt relief and civil war

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper presents a model of civil war between a government and rebel side.The government side maximises the probability weighted expected utility from the states of war and peace. In a peaceful state a transfer is made to the rebels. The government is characterised by two groups, a war party and a peace party.
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    Debt dynamics and contingency financing: theoretical reappraisal of the HIPC initiative

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The objective of this paper is to examine debt dynamics of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). Paper examines the conditions of debt sustainability and reviews other key concepts of debt dynamics, such as 'liquidity problem' and 'insolvency condition'.
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    Resolving the HIPC problem: is good policy enough?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Recent analysis of the HIPC problem argues that the short time horizons (high discount rates) of governments lead to bad policy and economic decline. This paper argues that this is an incomplete explanation of the HIPC problem.
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    How much poverty could HIPC reduce?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper reviews the development of the HIPC Initiative, then considers how much poverty could be reduced through debt relief.
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    PRSP processes in 8 African countries: initial impacts and potential for institutionalisation

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper has little to say about debt relief as such. But it bears on the possibility that HIPC2 will pass into history mainly as the occasion when PRSPs were born.Paper addresses the threat or actuality of "process overload". It seems that IFI staffs are now being fairly widely credited with delicate handling of PRSP drafting processes as such.
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    Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries.Conclusions: the contribution of the HIPC Initiative to poverty reduction should not be seen in isolation or only in terms of resources freed up.
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    The HIPC debt relief initiative: Uganda's experience

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    Paper examines the evolution of Uganda's debt, including the 1991 Debt Strategy, the 1995 Enhanced Debt Strategy, debt reduction operations, The Paris Club, debt buy back and restructuring of unsecured commercial debt, debt conversion and multilateral debt fund.

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