Debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries have increased substantially in recent years. Since 2013, median government debt has risen by about 20 percentage points of gross domestic product and increasingly comes from non-concessional and private sources. As a result, in most low-income...

1. Brief history of debt management until 1989 -- 2. Brief history of debt management after 1989 -- 3. In quest of solutions : sovereign insolvency proposals, collective action clauses and recent country cases -- 4. Gleneagles, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and the US crisis -- 5. The...

Die Internationale Schuldenkrise ist nicht nur ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches, sondern auch ein sozialethisches Thema, das insbesondere von der Kampagne "Erlassjahr 2000" in den letzten Jahren wieder in das Blickfeld des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt wurde. Zentrale Forderungen der...

The history of debt relief goes back several decades. It reveals that a country's accumulation of unsustainable debt stems from such factors as deficiencies in macroeconomic management, adverse terms-of-trade shocks, and poor governance. Debt-relief initiatives have provided debt-burdened...