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Debt relief as a platform for reform: the case of Nigeria's virtual poverty fund [PDF]
, 2008 In June 2005 the Paris Club group of creditors announced a US$30 billion debt relief package for the Nigerian government, which included a US$18 billion debt write off. This paper describes how these debt relief savings have been managed and spent, with
Alsop, M., Rogger, D.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Financing human service delivery through social impact bonds (SIBs) is the subject of some critical commentary in the academic literature, but this tends to be largely theoretical rather than empirically based. This paper presents empirical evidence of how SIB financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes for governments, not‐for‐
Veronica Coram +5 more
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Towards an Holistic Definition of Requirements Debt [PDF]
ESEM2019 Vision paper track, 2019 When not appropriately managed, technical debt is considered to have negative effects on the long term success of a software project. However, how the debt metaphor applies to requirements engineering in general, and to requirements engineering activities in particular, is not well understood.
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Long-Term Evaluation of Technical Debt in Open-Source Software [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Existing software tools enable characterizing and measuring the amount of technical debt at selective granularity levels. In this paper we aim to study the evolution and characteristics of technical debt in open-source software. We carry out a longitudinal study that covers the entire development history of several complex applications.
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Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
, 2015 An increase in the household debt to GDP ratio predicts lower GDP growth and higher unemployment in the medium run for an unbalanced panel of 30 countries from 1960 to 2012.
Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, Emil Verner
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Debt reduction for poverty eradication in the least developed countries: Analysis and recommendations on LDC debt [PDF]
, 2001 This paper reviews the main obstacles to human and social development posed by the current external debt burdens of the least development countries.
European Network on Debt and Development
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Effective marginal tax rates are of interest to policymakers due to the concern that high rates lead to disincentives to work, particularly for secondary earners in couple families and single parents who pay personal income tax and lose government welfare payments as their private income increases.
Ben Phillips
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Evaluation Models of Payments on Value Recovery Instruments
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Економічні науки, 2017 This article studies the restructuring of Ukraine’s sovereign bonds and sovereign guaranteed bonds to private creditors in 2015. We analyse the prerequisites of the debt issue and the conditions of implemented restructuring deal, and make a comparison ...
Volodymyr Pynzenyk
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The Effect of Taxes on Multinational Debt Location [PDF]
, 2010 We provide new evidence that differences in international tax rates and tax regimes affect multinational firms\u27 debt location decisions. Our sample contains 8287 debt issues from 2437 firms headquartered in 23 different countries with debt-issuing ...
Arena, Matteo, Roper, Andrew H
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Gender and educational patterns in the demand and supply of grandparent childcare in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Grandparents are an important source of childcare worldwide, but international patterns vary. We examine how demographic characteristics of parents, and of grandparents, factor into grandparent care provision considering the cultural assumptions and policy settings Australian families live within. Using the Household Income and Labour Dynamics
Lyn Craig +4 more
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