debt can potentially have positive effects on growth, if the funds are employed to expand the productive capacity of the … nation. The paper aims to investigate whether debt can be used to finance growth. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … between the two variables. Findings – The results suggest that there exist a positive relationship between debt and economic …

Heavy debt burdens and corruption have not only had a debilitating effect on development but also undermined efforts at …. Therefore, in developing a “business plan” for Africa’s economic renascence, corruption and debt management and mismanagement … debt relief, this paper highlights the institutional processes that underlie the misallocation and misappropriation of …

significantly increased their external‐debt‐to‐GDP ratios. It seems natural to suspect that increased indebtedness and the amplified … cycles are linked. The paper presents a simple macroeconomic model to formalize this connection. External debt is the novelty …

poverty relief, but is unlikely to be granted because of non‐servicing of existing debt and governmental instability within …The total of foreign debt of less developed countries (LDCs) is so great that only a modest part of the interest and … the LDCs. Christian commentary on LDC debt is so often simplistic, condemning lenders and urging forgiveness of principal …

/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …