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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813259603321

Autore

Rieffel Alexis <1941->

Titolo

Restructuring sovereign debt : the case for ad hoc machinery / / Lex Rieffel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8157-9611-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

336.3/6

Soggetti

Debt relief - Developing countries

Loans, Foreign - Developing countries

Debts, External - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sovereign default in the Bretton Woods era Fundamental concepts The main players Fundamental issues The Paris Club The Bank Advisory Committee (London Club) Process The North-South dialogue in the 1970s The debt crisis of the 1980s and the Brady Plan solution The HIPC Initiative in the 1990s The post-1994 crises and the role of bonds The debate over private sector involvement, 1995-2002 What is broken? What fixes make sense?" Countries don't go bankrupt" Five milestone cases

Sommario/riassunto

"When developing countries began experiencing debt problems in the late 1960s, the Paris Club took shape as "ad hoc machinery" to restructure debt from export credit agencies. A decade later the London Club process emerged to handle workouts of commercial bank debt. Restructuring debt in the form of bonds became an issue in the late 1990s in Argentina and several other nations, and the International Monetary Fund recently proposed a permanent mechanism to deal with that challenge."