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Delivering on debt relief: from IMF gold to a new aid architecture
Center for Global Development, USA, 2002Over the last several years,the United States and other major donor countries have supported a historic initiative to write down the official debts of a group of heavily indebted poor countries,or HIPCs.Donor countries had two primary goals in supporting debt relief: to reduce countries’ debt burdens to levels that would allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and to promote a new way of assiDocumentA new approach to sovereign debt restructuring
International Monetary Fund, 2002A paper which draws togerther the latest IMF thinking on the issue of sovereign debt. The paper outlines the problems stemming from recent changes in the nature of international borrowing and explores the need for, objectives and possible features of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.The potential role of the IMF in this process is explored in both financial and operational terms.DocumentSovereign debt restructurings and the domestic economy experience in four recent cases
International Monetary Fund, 2002This paper provides evidence on the impact of sovereign debt restructurings on the domestic economy using four recent cases where governments decided to default on parts or all of their debt (Ecuador, Russia) or to reach a restructuring with creditors under the shadow of default (Pakistan, Ukraine).DocumentThe case for an international insolvency court
Jubilee Research, 1999This article argues that the establishment of an International Insolvency Court (IIC) to deal with countries in extreme cases of sovereign debt is urgently required as existing mechanisms have failed to reduce the burden of debt with the scope and urgency required.DocumentShopping for jurisdictions: a problem for international Chapter 9 insolvency?
Jubilee Research, 2002In this paper Prof. Kunibert Raffer, the Viennese academic who first unearthed Chapter 9 of the US legal code as a model for international bankruptcy, has drafted a response to the IMF, who are insisting that the Fund must play a crucial role in the bankruptcy process, to protect sovereign debtors from so-called "Vulture" Funds.DocumentNew World Bank reports confirm that the HIPC initiative is failing
Jubilee Research, 2002Analysis of two recent World Bank reports to assess how the HIPC initiative is progressing using the Bank's own criteria.DocumentThe New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): A Commentary
Pambazuka, 2002Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns.These can be summarised as follows:NEPAD is a starting point for discussion in Africa, but did not result from appropriate participatory strategies.DocumentAid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms
Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.DocumentBuilding capacity in the Government of Tanzania's economic service
Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2000This paper outlines the findings of a needs assessment for capacity building in the Government economic service.DocumentThe unbreakable link: debt relief and the millennium development goals
Jubilee Research, 2002This report tracks the progress of poor countries towards debt sustainability under the HIPC initiative; as well as likely progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The article concludes that:the British Chancellor’s welcome proposal for an increase in OECD aid by $50bn a year will prove ineffectual in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the HIPC countriPages