The Debt of Developing Countries: Another Look

Debt management and crisis in developing countries

Debt management policy for governments of developing countries must balance conflicting objectives. The structure of explicit and implicit government debt influences the amount of lending private creditors are willing to extend, contractual debt service costs, the probability of default and the costs of default. Because default is not relevant for governments of industrial countries, their debt...

Another Look at the Hypocrisy of Chaucer’s Pardoner

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

Poor little rich countries: another look at the ‘resource curse’

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A Look at Poverty in the Developing Countries of Asia

Correspondence address: East-West Center, Research Program Population and Health Studies 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848-1601, USA Telephone: (808) 944-7482 Fax: (808) 944-7490 E-mail: [email protected] Internet site: www.ewc.hawaii.edu developing economies of East and Southeast Asia, increasing financial hardship for the poor. Although South Asia did not suffer to the same extent f...

Defense Expenditures, External Public Debt and Growth in Developing Countries