Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Group A versus Group B -- Expanding Debt Relief -- Reinventing the Aid Architecture -- Appendix 1.1 Ten Questions about Debt and Debt Relief -- Chapter 2 The HIPC Initiative: Background and Critiques -- The Heavily Indebted...

This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. What has actually been achieved? Has debt relief provided truly additional resources to fight poverty? How will the design and timing of the "enhanced Heavily...