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Explaining the Enhanced HIPC Initiative: A Response to Michaelowa (2003)

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Michaelowa (2003, 2002) proposes a political-economy model to explain the re-design of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) debt reliefinitiative in 1999. The principal assumption justifying the adoption of thisalternative approach is an alleged paucity, if not non-existence, of applied economic research on sustainable debt levels. This note challenges that assumption. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

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  • Peter Hjertholm, 2004. "Explaining the Enhanced HIPC Initiative: A Response to Michaelowa (2003)," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 121(3), pages 481-483, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:121:y:2004:i:3:p:481-483
    DOI: 10.1007/s11127-004-3285-3
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