Debt Management for Development: Protection of the Poor and the Millennium Development Goals - Couverture souple

Raffer, Kunibert

 
9781849801287: Debt Management for Development: Protection of the Poor and the Millennium Development Goals
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1849801282 ISBN 13 : 9781849801287
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This book exposes intolerable global double standards in the treatment of debtors and argues that fairness, economic efficiency and principles common to all civilized legal systems, must and can be applied to so-called `developing countries', or Southern sovereign debtors.



Tracing the history of Southern sovereign debts, describing the critical role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in enforcing improvements, and discussing technical debt issues, this book presents a solution incorporating the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as an appropriate form of debtor protection. Although most multilateral claims are statutorily subordinated to development needs, multilateral institutions wrongly claim preferred creditor status. They routinely violate their own statutes. Kunibert Raffer discusses grants and loans as alternative ways to finance the MDGs and development and necessary caveats on widely used debt statistics and indicators are made. The effects of the present US crisis are also discussed, making solving the never-ending debt problem particularly urgent.



With innovative and never-before discussed topics, this book will appeal to NGO employees, academics and students in development or international relations and political studies. Overseas development institutions and development co-operation ministries and departments will also find this a very useful reference tool.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kunibert Raffer, formerly Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849801282
ISBN 13 
9781849801287
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781849801089: Debt Management for Development: Protection of the Poor and the Millenium Development Goals

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1849801088 ISBN 13 :  9781849801089
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010
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