Odious debt in retrospect.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......since Alexander Sack coined the phrase odious debt, academics and activists have periodically...which current interest in the problem of odious debt is intertwined with other problems that...is no consensus on the definition of odious debt, the concept in all its variations is...

Odious or just malodorous? Why the odious debt proposal is likely to stay...

Finance & Development;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......done to remove the odious debt. But what should be...make it difficult for creditors from that country to...are compelling (see Odious Debt F&D, June 2002...going even harder if creditors were also attempting...the odor of future odious debt from polluting all...

IMF should back, not belittle, odious debt regime.(LETTERS TO THE...

Finance & Development;  June 1, 2005 ;     503 words ......have been used to establish the responsibilities of creditors (or borrowers), and thus their rights to repayment...the principle of unjust enrichment undermines an odious creditor's rights to repayment and strengthens a...trouble grappling with the law and figuring out how to odious debt-proof its ...

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 than a doctrine...goal of those who support a robust odious debt doctrine is to inhibit lending for...that would justify describing the odious debt doctrine as an actual part of international...

DEVELOPMENT: INDEBTED NATIONS MUST PAY TO PLAY, CREDITORS SAY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......in 1999. However, transparency on the part of creditors was also raised, particularly the conflict of...nation's debt sustainability. "I don't think the creditors should not be allowed have a role in deciding...but I think the views of the debtors and the creditors need to be balanced and this needs to ...

Fed; Ansett creditors' meeting could cost $28 million

AAP General News (Australia);  January 4, 2002 ;     431 words ...00-00-0000 Fed; Ansett creditors' meeting could cost $28 million By...the law that governs the conduct of creditors' meetings, a court was told today...notify each of Ansett's four million creditors of the meeting planned for later...

Devilry, complicity, and greed: transitional justice and odious...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......these volumes reveal, issues relating to odious debt and contemporary efforts to expand the odious debt doctrine to cover all debts of odious...simple. In particular, any analysis of odious debt must account for issues that inhere to...

Odious debt.

Finance & Development;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......corporations. The legal doctrine of odious debt makes an analogous argument...government, especially if creditors are aware of these facts...can be done to eliminate odious debt? In a recent study, we argued...evade. A new approach to odious debt As it stands now, ...

Kmart Plans for Tough Meeting with Creditors.

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Kmart Corp. has more than a million creditors and others with financial claims on the...the Huffy Bicycle Co. Kmart needs those creditors on its side if the nation's second-largest...names. Kmart filed for protection from creditors last week in Chicago, citing debts of...

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

Law and Contemporary Problems;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Iran. He argued that the creditors' cooperation enabled Saddam...Islamic Party said of the creditors that 'the Gulf countries...the traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating...origins of the concept of odious debt can be traced at least as...principles constituting ...

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

Finance & Development;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sensitive issue in Odious Debt (June 2002). Clarification...what constitutes odious debt and consensus on...itself constitute odious debt. Government representatives...relation to other creditors or be held liable...would not constitute odious debt. We argue that ...

Judge Grants Eastern Reprieve From Creditors;Airline Gets Cash to Operate...

The Washington Post;  November 15, 1990 ;     700+ words ......Eastern Air Lines Inc. a reprieve from its creditors, giving the financially crippled airline...their flights following reports that the creditors were trying to shut down the airline...trustee Martin R. Shugrue Jr. said the creditors had failed to make their case for liquidation...

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

Brookings Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......existing incentive of some creditors--banks, bondholders...is a concept known as odious debt. Odious Debt By law...the requirement that creditors must have been aware...attention to the concept of odious debt by enlisting spokesmen...

Australian, U.K. creditors approve HIH settlement; Initial payments to be...

Business Insurance;  April 3, 2006 ;     511 words ......SYDNEY, Australia-Australian and U.K. creditors of collapsed insurer HIH Insurance Group...under an agreement approved last week. Creditors in Australia and the United Kingdom last...liquidation in March 2001. The 1,500 creditors of the various HIH companies include...

Creditors strike back, MALAYSIAN BUSINESS

Malaysian Business;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 CREDITORS in a court convened meeting last December...Geahin Engineering Bhd (Geahin). `The creditors would like Geahin to consider refining...enable more favourable recovery for creditors,' according to sources involved with...