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  Debt and conditionality: multilateral debt relief initiative and opportunities for expanding policy space

  Third World Network, 2007

  Following the G8 meeting at Gleneagles in 2005, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) was introduced, aiming to cancel 100 percent of eligible debt stock owed by eligible countries to international financial institutions. This paper examines the key aspects of the MDRI and considers the opportunities this framework creates for indebted countries to expand their policy space.
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  Small change for a high price: conditional debt relief in Mali

  European Network on Debt and Development, 2007

  In the last three years, Mali’s debt stock has been reduced significantly as a result of the country’s participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and later on the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
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  The debt-growth nexus in poor countries: a reassessment

  Università Cattolica, Italy, 2005

  This paper investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth, with a particular attention to LICs, for which the theoretical arguments of debt overhang and liquidity constraint have to be reconsidered.The author focuses exclusively on the economic consequences of high debts in poor countries, providing a re-examination of the channels through which external debt im
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  The impact of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) on the pastoral economy: the case of Ngoma sub-county, Luwero district

  Network of Ugandan Researchers and Research Users, 2002

  This study investigates the impact of the structural adjustment policies initiated in the early 1990s, on pastoral economies in Uganda.
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  Impoverishing a continent: the World Bank and the IMF in Africa

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2004

  This paper critically assess IMF and World Bank policies of the last decades. In doing so the paper highlights the dominance of the U.S. within the IMF and World Bank.
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  Poverty in South Asia 2003: civil society perspectives

  South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation, 2003

  This report examines poverty in South Asia, and examines case studies in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The authors are highly critical of drastic income inequalities in South Asia, and claim that globalisation has generally further increased poverty in the region.
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  Bailouts or bail-ins? Responding to financial crises in emerging economies

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2004

  Following the East Asian crisis there have been many calls for reforming international financial structure. However, this book argues that these sweeping institutional reforms are not necessary. Rather there is a need to use existing institutions more effectively. The book focuses on practical ideas for improving the official sector’s capacity to respond to emerging-market financial crises.
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  The first UN Millennium Development Goal: a cause for celebration?

  Development Gateway, 2004

  This paper offers four skeptical reflections on the interpretation of the target of Goal 1 of the MDGs (i.e. halving extreme poverty worldwide by 2015) and the measurement of progress towards achieving it.
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  Adjustment policies and the current account balance: empirical evidence from Sudan

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper seeks to assess the impact of adjustment reforms on Sudan taking the current account balance as policy performance indicator.

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