Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture

by Nancy Birdsall and John Williamson

This study brings readers up to date on the complicated and controversial subject of debt relief for the poorest countries of the world. What has actually been achieved? Has debt relief provided truly additional resources to fight poverty? How will the design and timing of the "enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative" affect the development prospects of the world's poorest countries and their people? The study then moves on to address...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340858222
• ISBN13: 9780881323313
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher