The Administration of Debt Relief by the International Financial Institutions A Legal Reconstruction of the HIPC Initiative /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guder, Leonie F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Beitrg̃e zum auslñdischen f̲fentlichen Recht und Vl̲kerrecht, 202
• Subjects: Law.; Public law.; Development Economics.; European Law/Public International Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88609-9

This study addresses the mechanisms of debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) jointly coordinated by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It describes the content of the HIPC program and classifies it as a legally non-binding instrument under public international law....

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Introduction
• Multilateral Debt Relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
• The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC)
• Debt Relief under the G-8: The Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)
• Case Study: The Contemporary History of Debt Relief in Ghana
• Doctrinal Reconstruction of HIPC in a Public International Law Perspective.-Multilateral Debt Relief Under HIPC <U+0013> Global Governance Perspectives
• Issues of Legitimacy
• Conclusions.