As successors to structural adjustment programmes, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced in 1999 as preconditions for World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) concessional financing and for debt relief. This paper considers the impact of the PRSP framework on the...

The introduction of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative in 1996 established landmark legal and policy innovations both in the regulatory landscape of sovereign debt and in the framework of international development finance. As the HIPC framework draws to a close, this paper...

The Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) for Poorest Countries provides for a time-bound suspension of debt repayments to public creditors. Commercial creditors, however, are not so bound. Earlier this year there was an initiative to introduce a moratorium on debt service on sovereign bond...