Debt relief and beyond : lessons learned and challenges ahead /

Debt relief and beyond : lessons learned and challenges ahead / edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga, Dœrte Dœmeland.

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The history of debt relief goes back several decades. It reveals that a country's accumulation of unsustainable debt stems from such factors as deficiencies in macroeconomic management, adverse terms-of-trade shocks, and poor governance. Debt-relief initiatives have provided debt-burdened count...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: Braga, Carlos Alberto Primo, 1954-, Doemeland, Doerte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2009.
Series:World Bank e-Library.
Subjects:
Debt relief > Developing countries.
Debt relief.
Developing countries.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Debt relief to low-income countries : a retrospective / Boris Gamarra, Malvina Pollock, and Carlos A. Primo Braga
  • Debt relief and education in heavily indebted poor countries / Jesús Crespo Cuaresma and Gallina Andronova Vincelette
  • Is debt relief good for the poor? The effects of the HIPC Initiative on infant mortality / Juan Pedro Schmid
  • Drivers of growth in fragile states : the HIPC process helped fragile countries grow? / Luca Bandiera, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, and Gallina Andronova Vincelette
  • Debt sustainability in low-income countries : recent experiences and challenges ahead / Christian Beddies [and others]
  • Debt relief and sustainable financing to meet the MDGs / Dörte Dömeland and Homi Kharas
  • Sovereign default risk and private sector access to capital in emerging markets / Udaibir S. Das, Michael G. Papaioannou, and Christoph Trebesch
  • Lessons from market-access countries on public debt sustainability and growth / Brian Pinto and Mona Prasad
  • The concept of odious debt : some considerations / Vikram Nehru and Mark Thomas
  • Odious debt as a principal-agent problem / Frederico Gil Sander
  • The economics of odious debt / Dörte Dömeland, Frederico Gil Sander, and Carlos A. Primo Braga
  • Government debt management in low-income countries / Phillip Anderson and Eriko Togo
  • Debut sovereign bond issues : strategic considerations and determinants of characteristics / Udaibir S. Das, Michael G. Papaioannou, and Magdalena Polan
  • Subnational debt management by low-income countries in transition to market access / Lili Liu [and others]
  • Managing volatility : fiscal policy, debt management, and oil revenues in the Republic of Congo / Nina Budina, Sweder van Wijnbergen, and Ying Li
  • Debt-swap mechanisms revisited : lessons from the Chilean experience of the 1980s / Leonardo Hernández.

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