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

XV, 336 S.

graph. Darst.

24 cm

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. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP

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.

Foreword: Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Introduction -- Creditor initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s / David M. Roodman -- Playing games with African lives: the G-7 debt relief strategy & 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 / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Helping the poor to help themselves: debt relief or aid? / Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry -- International finance for 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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