Product Description: the volume is a collection of articles based on presentations given at a conference on Collective Action Clauses and the Restructuring of Sovereign Debt hosted by the Institute for Law and Finance on October 27, 2011. It is supplemented by appendices containing relevant materials on collective action clauses...read more

Product Description: Dieser Band enthält die Beiträge des Österreichischen Völkerrechtstages 2008. Zu Beginn werden die völkerrechtlichen Grundlagen der Unabhängigkeitserklärung des Kosovo im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Selbstbestimmung und territorialer Integrität behandelt...read more

Product Description: This publication is a compilation of summaries of panel discussions and selected papers on themes deliberated by debt management experts and professionals at UNCTADs Fifth Inter-regional Debt Management Conference, held in Geneva in June 2005...read more

Product Description: The conferences addressed recent trends in the area of debt management. Themes examined include: debt sustainability; the development of domestic debt markets; the promotion of regional capital markets; recent developments in Paris Club debt restructuring; collective action clauses and sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms; statistics reporting; institutional arrangements for public debt management and the implications of Basel II for developing countries...read more

This volume collects nine outstanding papers presented at the first World Bank Economists' Forum, held May 3-4, 1999. Initiated by then-Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, the Forum highlighted papers that combined analytical rigor with potential policy impact.The inagural forum covered the landscape on modern development economics. This volume surveys much of that same territory: fiscal policy, capital flows, trade, decentralization, labor markets, infrastructure, health, and worker training are the main themes. The authors represent both the operational and the research sides of the Bank. The papers were selected from among the best Forum entries, which in turn had been selected for presentation at the Forum from 140 submitted abstracts. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text argues that in many jurisdictions free market advocates have resorted to pubic sector downsizing and privatization as a means of alleviating problems of unemployment and slow economic growth, and that, as a consequence, the strategy of reducing public deficits, balancing budgets and achieving surpluses has become widely accepted as the only road to prosperity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text combines a theoreitcal and empirical analysis of the advantages of issuing index-linked bonds, potential problems that may arise and how sovereign issuers should deal with them. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This analysis of the political economy of government debt is divided into two parts. The first part deals with theoretical issues. Topics covered include: behavioral aspects; long term debt strategy; the political economy of redistribution; a model of intergenerational redistribution; the relationship between social security and the deficit in the US; the consequences of endogenous technology; and budgetary and monetary issues related to European integration...read more

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