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If Europe Doesn't Stand Up After Cyprus

March 20, 2013, Carlo Bastasin

Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

March 19, 2012

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China's Currency Policy Explained

September 7, 2011, Arthur R. Kroeber

An International Financial System Adrift and Imperiled

August 12, 2011, Lex Rieffel

Debt Buybacks and Backdoor Restructurings: Can Greece Pull an Ecuador?

July 29, 2011, Eduardo Levy-Yeyati

Debt Burden in Advanced Economies Now a Global Threat

July 28, 2011, Mengjie Ding and Eswar Prasad

Small Economies, Big Problems, and Global Interdependence: Greece and the World Economy

July 19, 2011, Kemal Derviş

Rebalancing the U.S.-China Relationship

January 17, 2011, Grace Gu and Eswar Prasad

The Top Economic Stories of 2010

December 23, 2010, Henry J. Aaron, Gary Burtless, Karen Dynan, Douglas J. Elliott, Donald Kohn, Adele Morris and Alice M. Rivlin

The Rising Burden of Government Debt

November 1, 2010, Mengjie Ding and Eswar Prasad

Moving to a Fiscally Sustainable Budget

February 11, 2010, Alice M. Rivlin

Do Central Banks Have an Exit Strategy?

September 15, 2008, Kenneth Rogoff

Addressing our Nation’s Fiscal Future

June 18, 2008

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Cutting-Edge Development Issues for INGOs: Applications of an Asset Accumulation Approach

July 2007, Caroline Moser, James Pickett and Pamela Sparr

Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt: Is Our Economy Vulnerable?

June 26, 2007, Kenneth Rogoff

Funding Global Health Needs: Will the Global Fund Debt Conversion Make a Difference?

February 28, 2007

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Why Bad Loans Are Good For Africa

February 13, 2007, Lex Rieffel

A Harmonious Socialist Society or Bust: China's Quest for Sustainable Development

December 1, 2006, Wing Thye. Woo

Debt Relief

April 2006, Peter Blair Henry and Serkan Arslanalp

Don't Rush to Reform the Fund (and the Bank)

March 23, 2006, Lex Rieffel

Resolving Nigeria's Paris Club Debt Problem: A Case of Non-Performing Creditors

August 2005, Lex Rieffel

Walk Softly and Carry Less Debt

July 30, 2005, Michael E. O'Hanlon

The Paris Club Owes Nigeria A Fair Deal

June 27, 2005, Lex Rieffel

Loan Sanctions and Odious Debt

April 2005, Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

After the Tsunami, Flexible Debt Relief is Needed

January 14, 2005, Lex Rieffel