Will HIPC matter? The debt game and donor behaviour in Africa

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In this paper we focus on the question: will the HIPC debt reduction programme help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of African countries, over the last two decades, has affected the provision of new resources by the donor community. Our results indicate that if debt levels are reduced sufficiently in high debt countries, donors can shift from the current pattern of non-selectivity and defensive lending to a low debt regime, a regime that has in the past allowed selectivity in lending in relation to levels of poverty and quality of policy.

Object Details

• ISBN: 9291902233
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2002/50

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; International Lending and Debt Problems ; Foreign Aid
• Subject: debt relief ; foreign aid ; low-income countries ; international organizations ; Schuldenerlass ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Afrika

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Birdsall, Nancy ; Claessens, Stijn ; Diwan, Ishac
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52856
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET