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    Can the World Bank and IMF cancel 100% of poor country debts?

    Jubilee Research, 2003
    This report employs financial analysis to argue that both the IMF and the World Bank have enough resources to cancel all the HIPC debt, and argues that they could finance this debt cancellation without jeopardising their normal operations.
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    Real Progress Report on HIPC

    Jubilee Research, 2003
    This New Economics Foundation report is intended to shadow the official World Bank and IMF annual HIPC Status of Implementation Report, and states that it examines questions that the official HIPC reports do not, including:how much debt has actually been cancelled?are creditors really sharing the burden of debt relief under the HIPC initiative?is HIPC debt relief enough to a
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    Through a glass darkly: new questions (and answers) about IMF programs

    Wellesley College Department of Economics, 2002
    This paper evaluates the recent research conducted on the IMF which focussed on the adoption, implementation and impact of their lending programs and their political dimensions.
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    Financing development: time for a new approach?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Why has aid failed to achieve development? Should other forms of financing for development (FfD) be emphasised instead for narrowing the wealth and income gaps between developing and developed countries?
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    Level playing field? Making world trade work for all

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can technical advice improve the negotiating capacity of LDCs?
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    Microfinance: a weapon of mass empowerment for the unbankable?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Microfinance is benefiting millions of people but is it reaching the very poor? How can microfinance do more to contribute to poverty reduction? Are microfinance organisations (MFOs) able to expand their boundaries and develop innovative services to reach out to more very poor clients? Do donors understand the potential of microfinance to achieve Millenium Development Goals?
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    Public debt in emerging markets: World Economic Outlook September 2003

    World Economic Outlook, 2003
    This issue of the IMF's six-monthly report looks at the state of the global economy in mid 2003. It also looks at the four more specific policy issues: How can economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa region be accelerated? Are foreign exchange reserves in Asia too high? How concerned should developing countries be about G-3 exchange rate volatility?
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    The rural poor, the private sector and markets: changing interactions in Southern Africa

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    Is current development thinking in Southern Africa correct in claiming that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement are the basis for future economic growth in the region?
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    The composition of sovereign debt: a description

    Central European University, Hungary, 2003
    Who has access to cheaper forms of borrowing: AAA-rated US corporations or developing countries?
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    East Asian financial cooperation: an assessment of the rationales

    Thailand Development Research Institute, 2003
    East Asian countries have made significant progress in financial cooperation since the financial crisis that started in Thailand in 1997, but what is the rationales for financial cooperation among East Asian economies?

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