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Debt relief under the HIPC initiative: Context and outlook for debt sustainability and resource flows

Lisandro Ábrego, Doris Ross

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This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral debt

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This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral debt

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This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral debt

Key concepts: Debt, Creditor, Context (archaeology), External debt, Internal debt, Sustainability, Debt levels and flows, Business

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