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  Indonesia: managing decentralization

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  The process of decentralisation in Indonesia was initiated after a long period of autocratic rule. Despite the political imperatives, there is a need to carefully sequence the fiscal decentralisation to ensure that the financing follows the assignment of functions. The functions should be commensurate with the capacity of the State to provide public services.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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  Capital markets financing for developing-country infrastructure projects

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  This study is the result of the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002.
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  The impact of aid and external debt on growth and investment

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  Additionality is an important issue of the HIPC Initiative.
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  Democracy, regime stability, and growth

  Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2002

  This study argues that a weak relation between democracy and economic growth found in previous studies is due to the neglect of the increase of stability of institutions over time, and the interaction of this stability with the type of political regime.
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  Women's empowerment or the feminisation of debt?: towards a new agenda in African micro-finance

  One World Action, 2002

  This paper is based on discussions at the international conference “Women's empowerment or the feminisation of debt? Towards a new agenda in African micro-finance ” organised by One World Action.
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  Sovereign debt restructuring: where stands the debate?

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  Sovereign debt restructuring mechanism has become a central item on the agenda of the official sector.The debate on this issue focuses mainly on four different points:universal legal framework to facilitate negotiations and to empower a supermajority of creditors to approve a debt restructuring agreementa broadening of collective action clauses that are already included in some sove
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  Enhancing sovereign debt restructuring

  Rethinking Bretton Woods Campaign, COC, 2002

  Many proposals have been put forward to address the problem of sovereign debt restructuring. In particular, the U.S. Treasury plan promotes a voluntary or market-based solution that calls for the increased use of collective action and representation clauses to formalise ex ante the interaction between the sovereign and its creditors in the event of a restructuring.
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  Can the World Bank enforce its own conditions?: the World Bank and the enforcement critique of conditionality

  World Learning, 2002

  This paper addresses the critique of conditionality that the author terms "the enforcement critique." The enforcement critique argues that conditionality has failed because borrowers do not comply with conditions and suggests a selectivity strategy in which donors would lend to governments that already have good policies and institutions in place. It argues there is not yet sufficient evidence
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  World Bank and India's economic development

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  In its 50-year partnership with India, the Bank concentrated on the growth objective through subscribing to the trickle down theory. Over the past five years, it has posited its initiatives on a plain of poverty alleviation, to which results are yet to be seen.

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