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Debt, Poverty and International Financial Institutions - Driving under the influence: Senegal's PRSP process
- A case study of the effects of PRSPs on Senegal.
- Odious Debt: An Introduction
- Causes and implications of the odious debt crisis explained.
- Debt in 2009: The Numbers
- The most recent figures on the rise of the debt crisis, from the 1970s to 2009.
- The failure of the HIPC Initiative: Liberia as a Case Study
- The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, organized by the IMF and the World Bank, promised an exit strategy for all impoverished and heavily indebted countries. A decade of experience within the HIPC Initiative has proven otherwise.
- Conditions of Debt Relief
- Debt relief programs initiated by the IMF and the World Bank almost always involve certain "conditions" that need to be fulfilled before countries become elligible for aid. These conditions, often grouped under the term Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), often cause more problems than they solve.
- Myths of Debt Relief
- A document from the Halifax Initiative concerning the myths propagated by the IMF about Third World debt.
- Who Owes Whom? On the Ecological Debt
- A statement from ACCION ECOLOGICA to the communities and countries of the South who are creditors of the ecological debt, supported by te SJC.
- Debt-creating Aspects of Export Credit
- Prepared by the Social Justice Committee as part of the policy paper "Race to the top - how to make the Export Development Corporation responsible to people and the environment", by the EDC Working Group of the Halifax Initiative Coalition (Nov. 1999)
- Causes and Effects of the Debt Burden
- A short document summarizing the main causes and effects of the debt burden, as well as some of the relevant statistics and social issues associated with debt.
- References
- A fairly comprehensive collection of our most frequently used sources for debt research.
- Glossary
- A fairly comprehensive collection of terms related to the issue of debt.
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