Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads: Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis Book

	Foreword	vii
	Contributors	xiii
	Introduction	3
Part I	Sovereign Debt: History and Impacts
1	Creditor Initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s	13
2	Playing Games with African Lives: The G7 Debt Relief Strategy and the Politics of Indifference	35
3	Sovereign Debt and the Debt Crisis in Emerging Countries: The Experience of the 1990s	55
Part II	Sovereign Debt: Law and Ethics
4	Ecological Debt-The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren	83
5	Defining "Illegitimate Debt": When Creditors Should Be Liable for Improper Loans	109
6	The Legal Case for Debt Repudiation	132
7	Ethics, Market and Government Failure, and Globalization: Perspectives on Debt and Finance	158
8	Helping the Poor to Help Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid?	174
Part III	Sovereign Debt: Prospects and Proposals
9	Using International Finance to Further Conservation: The First 15 Years of Debt-for-Nature Swaps	197
10	Odious Debt	215
11	Dealing Comprehensively, and Justly, with Sovereign Debt	226
12	The IMF's SDRM-Simply Disastrous Rescheduling Management?	246
13	Dealing with Sovereign Debt: Trends and Implications	267
14	The Jubliee 2000 Campaign: A Brief Overview	297
	Index	319