2018
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1499895
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Curse or Blessing? Has the Impact of Debt Relief Lived up to Expectations? A Review of the Effects of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiatives for Low-Income Countries

Abstract: UMR DIAL 225 Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 • Paris •Tél. (33) 01 44 05 45 42 • Fax (33) 01 44 05 45 45 • 4, rue d'Enghien • 75010 Paris • Tél. Abstract:As the multilateral debt relief initiatives draw to a close, this article reviews the impacts of debt relief to low-income countries (LICs) building on both the theoretical and empirical literature of past decades. We show that, while the pioneering studies of the early 2000s are inconclusive, the most recent analyses overcome certain methodolog… Show more

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“…In response to the increasing debt burden of many governments in LICs at the end of the 1980s, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank initiated in 1996 a large-scale debt relief program, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC I). The implementation of this firstever coordinated debt relief effort stemmed from the failure of traditional debt measures by the Paris Club to effectively restore debt sustainability among LICs (Daseking and Powell, 1999;Ferry and Raffinot, 2019). 2 .…”
Section: Debt Relief Initiativesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In response to the increasing debt burden of many governments in LICs at the end of the 1980s, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank initiated in 1996 a large-scale debt relief program, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC I). The implementation of this firstever coordinated debt relief effort stemmed from the failure of traditional debt measures by the Paris Club to effectively restore debt sustainability among LICs (Daseking and Powell, 1999;Ferry and Raffinot, 2019). 2 .…”
Section: Debt Relief Initiativesmentioning
confidence: 99%