HIPC Debt Relief: Where Have We Been?
Where are We Going?

Monday, 1 May 2000
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A. Alfred Taubman Conference Center
Hosted by the Center for International Development and the Jubilee Debt Campaign's Jubilee 2000

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Resources

CID Policy Paper on Debt Relief

Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPCs (153 bytes)
Jeffrey D. Sachs, et. al, August 1999

The Cologne Initiative (hereafter CI) re-opens the international official discussion about the HIPC (highly indebted poor country) debt crisis. Unfortunately, the CI leaves in place many of the serious flaws of the original HIPC initiative of 1996. (Policy based research is a main goal of CID and this paper appears as part of CID's Policy Paper Series. For other policy papers, please click here.)

HIPC Debt Database

The HIPC Debt Database is a comprehensive collection of HIPC debt statistics and CID calculations. The database is an Excel Workbook which contains nearly fifty worksheets. Each worksheet presents a specific debt statistic by year (1992-1997, 1998) and HIPC country.

Debt Relief for Poverty Reduction Act of 1999

H.R. 1095: Debt Relief for Poverty Reduction Act of 1999
"To require the United States to take action to provide bilateral debt relief, and improve provision of multilateral debt relief, in order to give a fresh start to poor countries." - from H.R. 1095

• H.R. 1095 - Summary of the bill
• H.R. 1095 - Complete text of the bill (HTML)
• H.R. 1095 - Complete text of the bill (PDF version - from the Government Printing Office web site)
• Witness Testimony on H.R. 1095
  • Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, CID
  • Tim Geithner, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department
  • The Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Salih Booker, Senior Fellow & Director of Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Lydia Williams, Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam America
• Testimony submitted for the record on H.R.1095
  • The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church
• Contact your Representative to support H.R.1095 (U.S. residents)
  (Information provided by Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet of the United States, Library of Congress.)

 

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