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  Passing the buck: money transfer systems: the practice and potential for products in Tanzania and Uganda

  Microsave-Africa, 2001

  This study examines how low income people and micro entrepreneurs send and receive money in Tanzania and Uganda, where financial services and their outreach are very limited. It looks at the ways in which businesses and people send and receive money, looking at what reasons, what costs, and with what risks people transfer money. What formal or informal services exist and how do people use them?
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  The crisis that was not prevented: lessons for Argentina, the IMF, and globalisation

  Forum on Debt and Development, 2003

  This book provides an overview of the current thinking about the Argentine crisis and reveals the limitations of the so-called "Washington Consensus". The book results from the international research project Global Financial Governance Initiative, which brings together Northern and Southern perspectives on key international financial issues.
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  An alternative approach to debt cancellation and new borrowing for Africa

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper critically analyses the HIPC Initiative and its effects on debt sustainability and the recipient countries’ capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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  The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

  Oxfam, 1999

  Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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  A critical assessment of existing debt proposals

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper investigates some of the key issues related to the assessment of sustainability and practices aimed at enhancing external debt sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa.Conclusions include:debt sustainability should be assessed by looking at many indicators simultaneously and comparing them against empirically determined critical values adjusted to account for country specific-fac
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  Minimizing the impact of commodity shocks in Africa for debt sustainability: an issues paper

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper explores various policy options for mitigating the impact of shocks (volatility of import and export commodity prices, climate) on African HIPC countries. These include insurance and hedging schemes.
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  Realignment of debt service obligations and ability to pay in concessional lending: feasibility and modalities

  HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies schemes which have the potential to increase the flexibility of heavily indebted primary producing countries in meeting their debt service obligations by making debt service repayments contingent on the world prices of the commodities they export.
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  Dampening the vulnerability to price shocks: a role for aid

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper examines the effects of price shocks on developing countries, and discusses what kind of global measures may be implemented to avoid negative outcomes.
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  Debt relief and fiscal sustainability

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  This paper analyses the relationship between fiscal policy, aggregate public sector debt sustainability, and debt relief. It develops a methodology to compute the fiscal policy path that is compatible with aggregate debt sustainability in the post-HIPC era.
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  Struggling to be heard: democratising the World Bank and the IMF

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This report analyses the structure and activities of the the World Bank and the IMF and makes recommendations on how they should change in order to be more effective.

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