Looks at the necessary conditions in the optimization of donor operations for debt relief, notably additional resource generation and desirability of earmarking. Presents a tentative overview of the role of microfinance in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSPR) policies of 29 countries in...

This book from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development brings together bankers, academics, Third World debtors, multilateral agency heads and politicians in an examination of political solutions to the Third World debt crisis. The book reveals that debt reductions are...

Explores the effects of adjustment lending and donor conditionality on public investment. Compares public expenditure in countries that have undertaken strong reform programmes with countries that have either undertaken weak reform programmes or no programme at all.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of the effects of trade and external debt on employment and income distribution in Ghana and Nigeria, 1970-1986 - examines economic growth trends in agricultural production and manufacturing, export earnings, public expenditure and basic needs...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effect of taxation and subsidy programmes on income distribution in Sri Lanka - examines tax revenue (covering import tax, consumption tax, licence taxes and income tax), and public expenditure on basic needs (incl. Food subsidies, health, transport, social...