This paper discusses some issues on how to evaluate the impact of HIPC debt relief in the cases of Tanzania and Zambia … higher if additional public investment succeeds to improve private sector productivity. – HIPC ; Zambia ; Tanzania ; CGE …

The HIPC initiative for debt relief in the poorest countries has been extended to cover more countries. Zambia is one …

poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact—human capital accumulation. Our simulation …

as they were a decade ago. Since debt relief provided under HIPC will free government resources, the initiative will …

and concessional loans. We find that the fiscal impact of HIPC debt relief follows fairly complex dynamics. For example …

allocation in SSA countries after the launch of the HIPC initiative. Three-year panel over 1995-2009 for 40 low- and low …-middle income SSA economies, of which 29 are HIPC, is used for the analysis. The findings suggest that the debt effect, while … substantially lower than existing estimates for the pre-HIPC period, remains negative for the social sector, with education …

Over the past few years, Completion Point countries under the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative across Sub … post-HIP C era. Despite these post-HIPC growth rebounds, the region is not likely to meet the Millennium Development Goals …

Countries (HIPC) Initiative, thus taking a sustainable debt path and graduating from debt renegotiations definitely. We find … that reaching the completion point at the Enhanced HIPC initiative was a major milestone to provide significant debt relief …-external and domestic-shocks, declining aid trends and optimistic macro-assumptions used in the Enhanced HIPC debt renegotiations …