Sökning: "HIPC initiative"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden HIPC initiative.
1. The Poverty Effect of The Debt-Relief under (HIPC) Initiative: Assessing aggregate impact of the debt-relief On Poverty-reduction
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : The main objective of this paper is to empirically assess debt-relief as a mechanism of aggregate poverty reduction in severely indebted and middle-income countries. The empirical analysis focuses on the channels connecting growth to investment and social spending that are believed to fuel the resource development gap of the heavily indebted countries that have suffered from the debt crisis. LÄS MER
2. Multilateral skuldavskrivning - på vems villkor? En normativ studie av Heavily Indebted Poor Countries-initiativet
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This paper investigates and discusses the normative question of whether debt relief mechanisms should be conditional or not. The aim is to contribute to the overall normative discussion about how the international system should be organized. LÄS MER
3. Skuldlättnader som vapen i kampen mot korruption? : Om hur HIPC-initiativet påverkar korruptionsgraden i berörda länder
Kandidat-uppsats, Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper examines how debt cancellation, given under the HIPC-initiative, has affected corruption over the period 2000-2006. The examination is foremost interesting due to earlier research showing that high corruption leads to unequal distribution of economic resources. LÄS MER
4. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers och deltagande
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The failure of Structural Adjustment Programs and its neoliberal policies to effectively reduce poverty have led to the creation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) by The World Bank and International Monetary Fund. PRSP, connected to both the Comprehensive Development Strategy and the HIPC initiative, are built on the notion of national ownership and stakeholder participation and thereby expand potential conditionality to include matters of governance. LÄS MER
5. Multilateral Debt Relief: A Promising Instrument to Increase Pro-Poor Public Expenditure?
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper seeks to examine the extent to which the debt cancellations under the HIPC Initiatives have met their objective of reducing poverty by increasing public sector expenditure on healthcare and education (so called pro-poor spending) over the period of 1996-2005. There are mainly two reasons to believe that the debt relief efforts will enable increased social spending (i) the debt cancellations will reduce debt servicing, thus freeing up resources which can be used for social improvements, and (ii) the pro-poor expenditure condition that follows from the design of the Enhanced HIPC, will enable donors to influence the allocation of government resources. LÄS MER
