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    Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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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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    The debt service burden and growth: evidence from low income countries

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper presents an empirical investigation into the nature of the relationship between debt, investment, human development, and growth in the particular context of low and lower middle income, credit rationed economies.This article finds that:there is limited support for a broad interpretation of the debt overhang effect for these countries.
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    The uncertainty of debt service repayments and economic growth of highly indebted poor countries: is there a case for debt relief?

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    This paper investigates whether and to what extent the uncertainty with respect to the annual debt service payments may adversely affect economic growth of the group of Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).Paper finds supportive evidence for this hypothesis.
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    The impact of aid and external debt on growth and investment insights from cross-country regression analysis

    WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001
    The purpose of the present paper is to take a closer look at the impact of aid and external debt on economic growth in developing countries from the mid-1970s to 1993. The paper is organised around a collection of tables presenting the results of a series of cross-country growth regressions.