Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Braga, Carlos Alberto Primo, 1954-
• Dömeland, Dörte, 1971-
• World Bank

Description

xxii, 451 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Debt relief > Developing countries

Note

• "This book is the outcome of a conference titled 'Debt relief and beyond: a World Bank conference on debt and development,' held in October 2008 at the World Bank in Washington, D.C."--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 : has the HIPC process helped fragile countries grow? / Luca Bandiera, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, and Gallina Andronova Vincelette -- Debt sustainability in low-income countries : recent experience 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.

ISBN

• 9780821378748
• 0821378740
• 9780821378755 (electronic)
• 0821378759 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2009020887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library