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Welcome to our Website!

erlassjahr.de (Jubilee Germany) is a German non-governmental organziation with around 700 member organizations that support erlassjahr.de's strive for a fair and transparent international insolvency framework.

Right now we ourselves do not offer a full English website, but we do contribute to a website that is hosted by our international campaign "Defuse the Debt Crisis". For more information, please visit www.defusethedebtcrisis.org.

Below you will find some of our publications on Fair and Transparent Arbitration that already have been translated into English.

Further English resources can be found on the following internet sites:

Jubilee Debt Campaign: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk
Prof. Kunibert Raffer: mailbox.univie.ac.at/~raffer5/selpub.html
Jubilee Research: jubileeresearch.org

12. Januar 2004

DMFAS conference in Geneva

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.

08. Januar 2004

More arguments and counterarguments

"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...

14. November 2003

Zambia in the HIPC-Initiative - State of the Art in 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...

13. März 2003

Report on the activities on the 50th anniversary of the London Debt Agreement 1953

The 27th of February 2003 was the 50th anniversary of the London Debt Agreement which Germany signed with its international creditors to reduce its debt burden. The pre and post World War II debt amounted to roughly 30 billion Deutsch Marks and was reduced to less than 15 billion, with very favourable conditions of repayment. Debt...

20. Februar 2003

FTAP working against debtor countries?

Some remarks on counterarguments raised by those who are to benefit Prominent among counterarguments raised against a Fair and Transparent Arbitration Process (FTAP) appears the suggestion that such a reform might actually put the sovereign debtor into a less favourable position, because such a procedure might make it more difficult to access...

16. Februar 2003

Debts are not Destiny. 50th Anniversary of the London Debt Agreement

Action and Information

14. Februar 2003

A breeze of fresh air into the SDRM debate: the Trichet proposal

Dated simply "January 2003" the Banque de France released a paper entitled "Towards a Code of Good Conduct on Sovereign Debt Re-Negotiation", which has since been referred to as the "Trichet proposal" within the discussion about an international insolvency framework. There is not much really new or sensational in it, but elements, which have...

21. Januar 2003

Little common ground left

The SDRM draft-proposal from an FTAP perspective 1. Introduction 2. The general thrust of the proposal 3. The current proposal and the FTAP essentials 4. Additional aspects 5. What’s going to happen next? 1. Introduction The IWF has finally published on January 7th the staff paper which outlines staff recommendations...

29. November 2002

Firmly on the wrong path: SDRM after the Annual Meetings 2002

We have commented comprehensively upon the SDRM proposal, as it was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Bank and the Fund last September (see: &bdquo;No way, IMF!“, available at: www.erlassjahr.de). During those meetings there has been some discussion between FTAP proponents and the Fund staff. These debates have left disappointingly...

01. August 2002

Is there a future for Indonesia without the IMF?

The author analyses Indonesia's financial political reaction to the Asian crises in 98, the role of the IMF and Indonesia's possibilities to go for alternative solutions in 2004 instead of renewed negociations with the Paris Club. Der Autor analysiert die finanzpolitische Reaktion Indonesiens auf die Aienkrise 98, die Rolle des IWF und die...

27. Juli 2002

erlassjahr.de: Position paper on the concept of a Fair and Transparent Arbitration Process (FTAP)

The following is a position paper by the German Jubilee network erlassjahr.de. It is a work in progress, which means it reflects the thinking within the network at the date indicated. Commentaries are welcome.

11. Juni 2002

No way, IMF! Short commentary on Anne Krueger’s proposal for the Dispute Resolution Mechanis

Up to now the IMF proposal for a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) was vague. The IMF now sharpened its position and it becomes clear that it is less about solving debt problems but rather about strengthening the IMF's institutional interests.

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