Download or read book The Impact of International Debt Relief written by A. Geske Dijkstra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International debt relief continues to be a highly controversial subject. Although many heavily indebted poor countries have received large amounts of debt relief over the past quarter of a century, it doesn’t appear to be enough. This book examines the impact of international debt relief efforts since 1990. It assesses whether the various debt relief modalities have enhanced economic growth in eight highly indebted countries in Latin America and Africa. Dijkstra argues that fundamental changes of the international aid and debt architecture are necessary to stop the flow of new multilateral loans and the possible perverse effects of conditionality.
Download or read book Long term Debt Sustainability in Low income Countries written by Andreas Antoniou and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication is a collection of papers on the theme of Long-term Debt Sustainability for HIPC Countries. The publication should prove useful to policy-makers in both advanced and low-income countries and students.
Download or read book Breaking the Cycle written by Ilhem Baghdadli and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burundi, situated in the heart of the Great Lakes Region, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Beset by coups d'tats, presidential assassinations and genocide, the country has been caught in a cycle of violence and under-development whereby brief periods of peace have been followed by further state repression and armed conflict. The 2000 Arusha peace accords, the Pretoria agreement of late 2003, the peaceful elections of 2005, and the recent Dar es Salaam peace agreement with the Forces Nationales de Libration have ushered in a period of relative stability. This fragile political process, however, has not been matched by a parallel rebound in economic growth that has been observed in post-conflict African countries and is a precondition for long-lasting peace. This work aims to identify areas in Burundi's rural economy with the greatest immediate potential to stimulate growth and consolidate peace over the next years. The short-term focus will be on the rural economy. It is vital however that the Government of Burundi and its partners address other critical areas in the medium term to sustain growth. The industrial and service sectors are of particular significance, as they need to absorb a burgeoning, youthful and increasingly urbanized generation. The first challenge is to take stock of international best practices and Burundian history, and develop a sound agricultural base as the critical foundation for sustainable growth. Our work identifies policy reforms and investments with potential to boost food supply and strengthen export crop competitiveness, thereby expanding rural growth.
Download or read book Securing the Global Economy written by Andreas Freytag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Securing the Global Economy explores how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive and complex economic-security connections. These connections are explored from an interdisciplinary perspective, with economists, political scientists and those in the policy world bringing their insights to bear. Moreover, this volume explores this economic-security connection from a constitutional or institutional perspective. In a classical liberal spirit, it is concerned with the organizing principles of a liberal international economic order and the framework of rules that enables it to survive and flourish. Security issues, national trade policies, the multilateral trade system and the detailed technical issues they subsume are analysed from this higher vantage point. This is thus a work about global governance as a whole and at its core, rather than a problem-solving manual for a few of the issues now at centre stage. Furthermore, it applies this larger vision to the current G8 and global economic-security agenda to generate a set of policy recommendations about how the global community, through and outside the G8, can better cope with the complex interconnected challenges it now confronts. Its innovative policy recommendations are especially timely when the recent global financial crisis, economic recession and fragile recovery place great strains on the liberal economic order, while new challenges from Iran, ongoing terrorist threats and corruption make this security-economic connection critically important.
Download or read book trade and development report 2008 written by United Nations and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of International Climate Finance written by Michaelowa, Axel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of international climate finance channelled from developed to developing countries through public interventions for mitigation and adaptation has been developed over the last decade, but its roots date back to the early 1990s. Despite the high relevance of the topic in the international climate negotiations, illustrated by the (missed) target to mobilise USD 100 billion by 2020, there is no book that provides an overview accessible to academics and practitioners alike.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Socio economic Policies and Millennium Development Goals MDGs in Africa written by E. O. Akinnawo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empirical Evidence on the New International Aid Architecture written by Stijn Claessens and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study how 22 donors allocate their bilateral aid among 147 recipient countries over the 1970- 2004 period to investigate whether changes in the international aid architecture?at the international and country level?have led to changes in behavior. We find that after the fall of the Berlin wall, and especially in the late nineties, bilateral aid responds more to economic need and the quality of a recipient country's policy and institutional environment and less to debt, size, and colonial linkages. Importantly, we find that when a country uses a PRSP and passes the HIPC decision point the perverse effect of large bilateral and multilateral debt shares on aid flows is reduced, suggesting less defensive lending. Overall, it appears international aid architecture changes have led to more selectivity in aid allocations. The specific factors causing these changes remain unclear, however. Furthermore, there remain large differences among donors in selectivity that appear to relate to donors' own institutional environments. Together this suggests that further reforms will have to be multifaceted.
Download or read book Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa written by Evelyn Wamboye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the extent to which foreign capital from conventional (OECD countries) and non-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the nature, motives, and implications of this capital, and identifies drivers of contemporary rapid growth within and across African countries. Authored by leading experts, the book offers original insights for academics, policymakers, and practitioners studying the changes taking place in Africa as the continent strides more confidently toward integration with the global economy. The major themes addressed in this book include:• The implications of growing Chinese engagement in Africa • BRICS countries' versus OECD countries' investment contributions to Africa• The politics of land, land grab, and the puzzle of inclusive development in Africa• Foreign research and development spillovers, trade linkages, and productivity in Africa• Foreign aid effects on social sector, growth, and structural change in Africa• Remittances, foreign debt, resource management, and economic development in Africa
Download or read book United Nations Documents Index written by Dag Hammarskjöld Library and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Value Chain of Foreign Aid written by Christian Schabbel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the prospects of official development assistance (ODA) for poverty reduction. It analyzes the entire value chain of ODA, including provision, allocation and utilization. Within each of these components, coverage examines scope and limits of aid. The horizontal interactions between donors and recipients as well as the vertical connections to local and region-specific conditions represent the heart of this book's approach.
Download or read book Annual Report written by United Nations University and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finance India written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade and Development Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debt Swaps for Sustainable Development written by Dr. Jürgen Kaiser and published by Iucn. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is aimed at helping IUCN's members to understand the scope and mechanisms of debt conversion and to spot opportunities for their own action in this important field.
Download or read book Artha Suchi written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UNU WIDER Publication Catalogue written by World Institute for Development Economics Research and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
