Publications in english
Here you find the publications on Fair and Transparent Arbitration which erlassjahr.de has been able to translate into English. Some of the documents are only for download.
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12. Juli 2010
The Sabbath and Jubilee Year concepts outlined in Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25 of the Old Testament and referred to by Jesus in his first preaching in Nazareth (Luke 4) turn out to be astonishingly relevant to macroeconomic issues present in late capitalism.These two Old Testament texts limit the rights of creditors to collect legally valid claims from...
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24. Februar 2010
1.The Bastille is still standing
The demonstrators had a good sense of history. When the French Jubilee 2000 campaign ‘Annullons la dette' first called for a demonstration outside the Paris Club in April 2000, the demonstrators assembled for their march to the French ministry of finance at the Place de la Bastille. In 1789, the storming of what was...
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23. Februar 2006
This paper attempts an analysis of existing instruments against external shocks that are available to developing countries. It aims at the identification of policy options developing countries and the International Community ought to pursue. These include the improvement of existing instruments as well as the establishment of new ones. Special emphasis is...
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05. Dezember 2005
Analysis of the new IMF-Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF)
On Wednesday, November 23rd, the IMF was to approve the "Exogenous Shocks Facility" (ESF).
It will become effective once the G8-debt cancellation, by now called "Multilateral Debt Relief
Initiative (MDRI)", is officially implemented. This facility outlined by the IMF provides loans to
...
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02. März 2005
The World Bank and the IMF are not only important creditors to many countries in the South. Beside their role as sources of lending they play another one, which is equally essential for countries, that depend on foreign capital inflows: They act as “independent experts”, when it comes to negotiations after a country has become unable to service...
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05. August 2004
Critical Discussion of the Approach, its Implications
and Possible Alternatives
Einige Entschuldungskampagnen fordern von den Gläubigern eine
vollständige Streichungs aller Schulden der ärmsten Länder. Das
erlassjahr.de-Arbeitspapier zeigt, dass diese Forderung einige
...
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07. Juni 2004
The BOTOS-Approach proposed in this paper is a direct response to the new operational framework for debt sustainability recently published by the World Bank and IMF.
This paper entails alternatives in two areas:
First, it proposes an alternative mechanism for calculating a sustainable debt level for countries participating in the Heavily Indebted Poor...
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21. April 2004
On Feb. 2nd IDA and IMF staff submitted to their respective boards a paper entitled „Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries – Proposal for an Operational Framework and Policy Implications“ [1]. This paper has been discussed at the IMF board on Feb. 23rd and the results of this discussion has been published in Public Information Notice...
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15. März 2004
A recent FES study written by Jürgen Kaiser and Antje Queck from erlassjahr.de argues that Iraq is a case for applying the “odious debt doctrine” and calls into question the legitimacy of the claims on Iraq.
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12. Januar 2004
The report on the DMFAS conference in Geneva end of last year with a presentation by Kunibert Raffer on the FTAP concept is now online available at:
http://r0.unctad.org/dmfas/meetings1103.htm
DMFAS is the debt managment unit of the UN. They are developing technical tools in the area and supporting debtor governments in that field.
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08. Januar 2004
"FTAP is a half-hearted solution compared to a complete and unconditional
cancellation of a country’s foreign debt."
The opposite is true! A singular complete debt cancellation will certainly
solve an immediate solvency problem. However , most in debt ed countries
are in debt because they find themselves in a structurally disadvantaged...
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14. November 2003
Debt Sustainability and the projections of the Word Bank and the IMF
Financing of national and multilateral development goals
The state of the PRSP process
Topping up of relief at the decision point
Creditor Participation and litigation attempts by individual creditors
Current agreement with the Paris Club and agenda for further...
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