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Weeks, John and Dagdeviren, Hulya (2001) How much poverty could HIPC reduce? CDPR Discussion Paper 2001. In: WIDER Development Conference: Debt Relief, 17-18 August 2001, Marina Congress Centre, Helsinki. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper reviews the development of the HIPC Initiative, then considers how much poverty could be reduced through debt relief. Using a simple distribution function and measures of inequality, US one dollar a day poverty is estimated for the twenty-three countries. We show that the HIPC countries account for relatively little of developing country poverty. Further, full debt cancellation would have a small impact on reducing poverty in most of the HIPC countries themselves. The paper reaches the conclusion that neither a distribution-neutral debt cancellation, nor transferring all debt payments to investment for faster growth would achieve the International Poverty Targets. Therefore, debt relief must be combined with redistribution measures to achieve those targets.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Items (Paper)
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies
School Research Centres > Centre for Development Policy and Research (CDPR)
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2009 13:57
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/6527

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