Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads : Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis.

Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads : Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis.

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Afri...

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Other Authors: Jochnick, Chris (Editor), Preston, Fraser A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 2006.
Subjects:
Debts, External > Developing countries.
Debt relief > Developing countries.
Debt relief
Debts, External
Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Jeffrey D. Sachs
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Creditor initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s / David Roodman
  • Playing games with African lives: the G-7 debt relief strategy and the politics of indifference / Fantu Cheru
  • Sovereign debt and debt crisis in emerging countries: the experience of the 1990s / Daniel Marx, Jose Echague, and Guido Sandleris
  • Ecological debt
  • the economic possibilities for our grandchildren / Andrew Simms
  • Defining "illegitimate debt": when creditors should be liable for improper loans / Joseph Hanlon
  • The legal case for debt repudiation / Chris Jochnick
  • Ethics, market and government failure, and globalization: perspectives on debt and finance / J.E. Stiglitz
  • Helping the poor to help themselves: debt relief or aid? / Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry
  • Using international finance to further conservation: the first 15 years of debt-for-nature swaps / William K. Reilly
  • Odious debt / Seema Jayachandran and Michael Kremer
  • Dealing comprehensively, and justly, with sovereign debt / Jack Boorman
  • The IMF's SDRM
  • simply disastrous rescheduling management? / Kunibert Raffer
  • Dealing with sovereign debt: trends and implications / Arturo C. Porzecanski
  • The jubilee 2000 campaign: a brief overview / Ann Pettifor.

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