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- The Due Diligence Model: A New Approach to the Problem of Odious Debts [Full Text]
| Jonathan Shafter | 03/23/2007
Odious debts are debts incurred by a government without either popular consent or a legitimate public purpose. There is a debate within academic circles as to whether the successor government to a regime that incurred odious debts has the right to repudiate repayment. - International Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics [Abstract]
| Sanjay G. Reddy | 03/23/2007
Modified rules for the accumulation and discharge of international sovereign debt can codify the moral and legal basis for existing ad hoc deviations and present a justifiable framework within which international lending and borrowing can take place. - Introduction: The Players and the Game of Sovereign Debt [Abstract]
| Barry Herman | 03/23/2007
This essay characterizes the main actors and how they operate during a buildup of government foreign debt. - National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief [Abstract]
| Alexander W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hagen, Bertil Tungodden | 03/23/2007
The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is the largest multilateral effort aimed at providing debt relief. this essay, we address the question of whether this program is consistent with a view of justice commonly known as liberal egalitarianism. - Argentina, the Church, and the Debt [Abstract]
| Thomas J. Trebat | 03/23/2007
The Argentine debt crisis of 2001–2002 and its aftermath are examined in the light of the moral framework of Catholic social teaching on the debt problems of poor countries. - Risks of Lending and Liability to Others [Abstract]
| Kunibert Raffer | 03/23/2007
This essay analyzes why risk and liability are necessary mechanisms of well-functioning markets, and discusses how risk can be handled. In the U.S., inappropriate regulatory norms hindered providing against risk in the case of sovereign debt. The absence of liability has produced debts no decent legal system would recognize as legitimate domestic debt. - Making the Case for Jubilee: The Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement [Abstract]
| Elizabeth A. Donnelly | 03/23/2007
Since the late 1970s, an increasingly global coalition of churches and nongovernmental organizations has pressed for reduction if not outright cancellation of the foreign debt of highly indebted poor countries, because of its deleterious impact on poor people. The movement achieved limited yet substantial success in the Jubilee 2000 campaign.