In this paper we stress the limits of the current debt sustainability framework used in the IMF-WB HIPC Initiative and … the necessity to include domestic public debt into the analysis. The standard sustainability analysis does not take into … undermine the overall sustainability and the success of debt relief programs. This work focuses on the evaluation of public debt …

) voluntary transfers of resources; 2) the debt crisis; 3) the securing of markets for developing countries' exports. …

West would go into debt, allowing developing countries to have trade surpluses that would help them develop faster … using these surpluses to buy assets in developing countries, while “the rest” were going into debt. Now it is time for “the … rest” to accumulate assets and for the West to go into debt. …

measures were taken that damaged the interests of investors; the debt relief that was demanded bore little relation to the …

treaties serve, in debt accumulation in low and middle income countries. The paper empirically finds that signed bilateral … investment treaties with OECD countries have a positive influence on total and guaranteed debt accumulation, under system GMM and … to international lending. …

the country’s creditworthiness. Therefore, a default and debt restructuring were inevitable sooner or later—and certainly … budget deficit and public debt figures. The prosaic tale of the supposed inevitability of the Greek tragedy has been endorsed … about 50 percent of the time. Does that tell you something?” In reality, Greece’s road to default and debt restructuring in …