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Sovereign debt at the crossroads : challenges and proposals for resolving the third world debt crisis

This is a comprehensive overview of the problems associated with Third World debt and describes new and practical approaches to overcoming them. As contributions come from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, the text offers a timely guide for understanding and influencing the debt debate
eBook, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006
1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations
9780195168006, 9780195168013, 9780198037521, 0195168003, 0195168011, 019803752X
71803918
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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010