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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

Making Iraq Creditworthy

June 15, 2004, Lex Rieffel

Reducing Iraq's Foreign Debt

February 6, 2004, Lex Rieffel

Argentina: Facing Up to its Debt Mess

February 3, 2004, Lex Rieffel

Restructuring Sovereign Debt

December 19, 2003, Lex Rieffel

Is Debt Relief Efficient?

November 2003, Peter Blair Henry and Serkan Arslanalp

Helping The Poor to Help Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid?

November 2003, Peter Blair Henry and Serkan Arslanalp

Restructuring Sovereign Debt

The Case for Ad Hoc Machinery

2003, Lex Rieffel

Make Odious Debt Too Risky To Issue

May 8, 2003, Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

Odious Debt: When Dictators Borrow, Who Repays the Loan?

Spring 2003, Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

Debate: A World of Junk-Status States

August 19, 2002, Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

Odious Debt

July 2002, Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran

Foreign Aid Might Help More People as a Grant

April 24, 2002, Nancy Birdsall

A Step in the Wrong Direction

April 10, 2000, Nancy Birdsall

Emerging Market Economies Recover, But Debt Restructuring Problems Linger On

April 7, 2000

Somebody Turn on the Lights

Nov-99, Martin Mayer

The Buyback Boondoggle

1988, No. 2, Jeremy Bulow and Kenneth S. Rogoff

Comprehensive Debt Retirement: The Bolivian Example

1988, No. 2, Jeffrey D. Sachs