Odious debt in retrospect.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......misplaced but, second, that the concept of odious debt is a potentially effective organizing...last section of this essay considers the odious debt concept as an organizing device. However...conclusion that ex ante development of an odious debt doctrine or other legal mechanism ...

The due diligence model: a new approach to the problem of odious debts.

Ethics & International Affairs;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Odious debt is sovereign debt...unsustainable debts incurred by democratic...countries, or debts incurred by nondemocratic...debts meeting the odious debt standard. Whether...officially declared odious debt-prone in order...crucially, only debts ...

Odious, not debt.(Odious Debts and State Corruption Conference)

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the Doctrine of Odious Debt. (1) As formulated in 1927, Odious Debt allows governments to disavow debts incurred by their predecessors...countries have invoked Odious Debt as grounds for repudiation...past eighty years, Odious Debt's rhetorical ...

Odious debt, old and new: the legal intellectual history of an idea.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......INTRODUCTION In a sense, all debts are odious; that is, to use dictionary...article, the concepts of odious debt and related international...description of the concept of odious debt. It then proceeds to assess...and de jure invocation of odious debt as a rationale for ...

The dilemma of odious debts.

Duke Law Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......says no. The odious debt controversy is...to repay the debts incurred by their odious...Rebirth of the Odious Debt Debate III. Do...succeed to ) the debts incurred by their predecessors...been labeled odious debts, defined...twentieth century as ...

Sovereign debt restructuring, odious debt, and the politics of debt...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...I INTRODUCTION Odious debt is more of a literature...not have to pay for the debts incurred by a prior odious regime...those who support a robust odious debt doctrine is to inhibit lending...would justify describing the odious debt doctrine as an actual part...leaders. The ...

Odious debt.

Finance & Development;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......corporations. The legal doctrine of odious debt makes an analogous argument that sovereign...forever. What can be done to eliminate odious debt? In a recent study, we argued for the...incentive to evade. A new approach to odious debt As it stands now, countries repay debt...

Odious debt wears two faces: systemic illegitimacy, problems, and...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that under the principle of non-liability for 'odious debts' China bears no responsibility for the bonds...article examines how the traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating sovereign debt may undergo...developments in Cuba. The origins of the concept of odious ...

Odious debt. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)

Finance & Development;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......address a politically sensitive issue in Odious Debt (June 2002). Clarification of what constitutes odious debt and consensus on a solution are needed...people's consent in itself constitute odious debt. Government representatives are supposed...

When is a debt not a debt?

Global Finance;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......when he formulated the doctrine of 'odious debt'. It is not just, Sack claimed, for...Paul Wolfowitz refocused the debate on 'odious debt' when he told a US Senate committee...and today's foremost champion of the 'odious debt' doctrine. "The people of Iraq really...

Equitable subordination, fraudulent transfer, and sovereign debt.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......would provide a better mechanism for odious debt relief. Other writers have argued, perhaps...strategy for addressing the problem of odious debt, this article focuses on two particular...transactions might trigger liability. Defining odious debt narrowly in this way will discipline...

Odious debt: when dictators borrow, who repays the loan?

Brookings Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......The key to a loan embargo is a concept known as odious debt. Odious Debt By law, in most countries, individuals do not...scholars subsequently elaborated a doctrine of odious debt, arguing that sovereign debt should not be transferable...

Sorting out Iraq's money woes

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 10, 2003 ;     262 words ......Monetary Fund: the notion of "odious debt." Actually, it's an old idea...by writer Lawrence Solomon, "odious debt" came out of the Spanish-American...money. Maybe they won't get it. "Odious debt" are words we'll be hearing more...

DEBTS SHOULD BE PAID BY FORMER DICTATORS

The Boston Globe;  July 20, 2003 ;     206 words ......United States introduced the concept of odious debt in international law at the end of the...of the debt owed by poor countries is odious debt. The IMF, the World Bank, and other...lenders should be required to cancel the odious debt of countries such as Haiti, the Philippines...

Odious debt, odious credit, economic development, and...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......pay the dictator's debts, even those made...obligations. (3) A. The Odious Debt Problem At times...the doctrine of odious debt --have argued that...responsible for debts incurred by old ones. After...and creating an odious debt exception to state...doctrine of ...