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Alternatives to HIPC for African Debt-Distressed Countries: Lessons from Myanmar, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe
Tendai Biti et al.
February 03, 2016
Despite the success of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) in reducing the debt burdens of low-income countries, at least eleven Sub-Saharan African countries are currently in, or face a high risk of, debt distress. A few of those currently at risk include countries that have been excluded fr...
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Red Flags and Red Lights for IMF Lending to HIPCs
May 20, 2010
This blog entry also appeared on the Huffington Post. As the global economic crisis spread throughout the developing world in 2008, some of us waited for the next unfortunate phase for poor, debt vulnerable countries - the resumption of massive IMF lending. This is a movie that we’ve seen many t...
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Debt Relief and the MDGs
September 28, 2004
This note links the relevance of debt relief to one of the great challenges of our time: achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Saving Debt Relief From Itself
April 23, 2004
Whatever happened to debt relief for the world's poorest countries? It's back.