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Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: Context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

Abrego, Lisandro; Ross, Doris C. - 2001

This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of lowincome countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral debt. It seeks to reduce debt to sustainable...

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Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: Context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

Abrego, Lisandro; Ross, Doris C. - 2002

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Can HIPC reduce poverty in Tanzania?

Danielson, Anders - 2001

While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact on poverty. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the amounts of both income and non-income poverty are roughly the same as they were a decade ago. Since debt relief provided...

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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019

increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …

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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …

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Conflict and poverty : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Mueller, Hannes; Techasunthornwat, Chanon - 2020

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …

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The global economic crisis: Towards syndrome-free recovery for Africa

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Naudé, Wim - 2009

This paper outlines the impact of the global economic crisis on Africa. Recovery requires coordinated and consistent efforts to assist individual countries in mitigating (reducing) the risk, coping with the impact, and reducing risk over the longer term. Care should be exercised to maintain and...

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Unsustainable debt burden and poverty in Pakistan: A case for enhanced HIPC initiative

Anwar, Tilat - 2002

The financing of Pakistan’s substantial current account deficits within the framework of IMF and the World Bank structural adjustment programmes—about 6 per cent of GDP in the early 1990s led to a debt crisis in the late 1990s. IMF considered this level of current account deficit quite...

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Growth, income distribution, and poverty: A review

Bigsten, Arne; Levin, Jörgen - 2001

This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to...

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Impact of globalization and liberalization on growth, employment and poverty: A case study of Pakistan

Anwar, Tilat - 2002

While globalization is viewed as a key to future economic development, it is also argued that it increases poverty, threatens employment and living standards of the poor. Like many other developing countries, Pakistan also attempted to integrate its economy in the global economy through...

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