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Debt Relief and Civil War

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  • Tony Addison
  • Mansoob Murshed

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Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by greed to recruit followers, since the incomes, and therefore the grievances of followers, will fall if they benefit from broad-based public spending. But four things can go wrong with the use of debt relief in this way.

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  • Tony Addison & Mansoob Murshed, 2001. "Debt Relief and Civil War," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2001-57, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:dp2001-57
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    1. Tony Addison, 2005. "Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2005-05, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji & Murshed, Syed Mansoob, 2024. "External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
    3. Alvarez-Plata, Patricia & Brück, Tilman, 2008. "External Debt in Post-Conflict Countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 485-504, March.
    4. S. Mansoob Murshed & Muhammad Saleh, 2013. "Human Capital Accumulation in Pakistan in the Light of Debt, Military Expenditure and Politics," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 520-558, November.
    5. Tony Addison & Rachel Gisselquist & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Saurabh Singhal, 2015. "Needs vs Expediency - Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-Conflict Countries," Working Papers id:7371, eSocialSciences.
    6. Milanovic, Branko, 2003. "Is inequality in Africa really different ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3169, The World Bank.
    7. Menzies, Gordon Douglas, 2006. "Debt and Aid, War and Peace: Policy Tradeoffs in Conflict-affected Countries," Review of Applied Economics, Lincoln University, Department of Financial and Business Systems, vol. 2(2), pages 1-11.
    8. Menzies, Gordon Douglas, 2008. "Can HIPCs Use Hyper-Incentives?," Review of Applied Economics, Lincoln University, Department of Financial and Business Systems, vol. 4(1-2), pages 1-12.
    9. Tony Addison & Rachel Gisselquist & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa & Saurabh Singhal, 2015. "Needs vs Expediency - Poverty Reduction and Social Development in Post-Conflict Countries," Working Papers id:7371, eSocialSciences.
    10. Syed Mansoob Murshed, 2007. "The conflict-growth nexus and the poverty of nations," Working Papers 43, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs.

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