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ETHICS
OF SOVEREIGN DEBT in ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, THE
JOURNAL OF THE CARNEGIE COUNCIL |
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com, UN/
- 20 April 2007 – With a host of the world’s poorer nations heavily
in debt, Ethics
& International Affairs, the quarterly journal of the Carnegie
Council, has devoted its entire spring issue
(21.1) to the analysis of this critical and intractable problem.
Drawing on leading thinkers and practitioners
from around the world, this special issue on debt addresses such vital questions
as:
o
When is it appropriate to hold
countries responsible for their debt?
o
How do you preserve legitimate
lending?
o
What
are the responsibilities of official, multilateral, and private creditors?
o
How should governments decide when
and how much to borrow?
o
Who should bear which risks?
o
What makes the processes of debt
restructuring, debt cancellation, or the enforcement of debt contracts more or
less just?
Contributing
to this special issue on debt are:
o
Barry Herman on “The Players and
the Game of Sovereign Debt”
o
Sanday G. Reddy on “International
Debt: The Constructive Implications of Some Moral Mathematics”
o
Jonathan
Shafter on “The Due Diligence Model: A
New Approach to the Problem of Odious Debts”
o
Alexander
W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hage, and Bertil Tungodden on “National Responsibility and the Just
Distribution of Debt Relief”
o
Kunibert
Raffer on “Risks of Lending and Liability of Lenders”
o
Elizabeth
A. Donnelly on “The
Catholic Church and the Poor-Country Debt Movement”
o
Thomas
J. Trebat on “
Argentina,
the Church, and the Debt”
These
essays, along with other original works, will be published in book form by
Blackwell International in late 2007.
Meanwhile,
this special issue of Ethics
and International Affairs
is available free online CLICK
HERE.
Founded
in 1914, the mission of the Carnegie Council is to be the voice for ethics in
international policy.
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and nonpartisan, the Council focuses its efforts on three broad themes: Ethics,
War and Peace, Global Social Justice, and
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It
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