Trésor-Economics No. 164 - Will Africa need a new "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries" Initiative?
The IMF and the World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC) in 1996, and supplemented it in 2005 with the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). The purpose of the HIPC Initiative was to organise massive relief of external public debt owed to the international financial community as a whole (international financial institutions, official bilateral creditors and p... Lire la suite