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Debt and Development Finance
 
UNCTAD, through its Debt and Development Finance Branch (DDFB), works on analytical issues technical assistance, primarily in the areas of external and domestic debt.
 
UNCTAD began working on debt issues during the 1970s. As the debt situation of developing countries has evolved over the following three decades, DDFB has provided up-to-date analysis of the most important developments and emerging issues in international debt, and adapted its technical assistance to the changing needs of developing countries.
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 News

 
Vulture funds
11 December 2015What to do about "vulture funds"? UNCTAD event highlights challenges ahead
A high-level UNCTAD Roundtable recently brought together over 70 participants and experts at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss the role played by non-cooperative funds (so-called vulture funds) in sovereign debt markets and debt restructurings.
10th Debt Conference
23 November 2015Ireland's President calls for reform of global debt architecture in light of new development agenda
President Michael Higgins of Ireland has called for a "new institutional architecture" in managing global debt in a keynote address delivered to 10th UNCTAD Debt Management Conference in Geneva on 23 November.
10th Debt Conference
23 November 2015Experts meet to examine debt management in an increasingly unstable global economy
With a growing mountain of global debt remaining at the heart of a highly fragile worldwide economy, experts are meeting in Geneva at the 10th UNCTAD Debt Management Conference on 23–25 November in a context of heightened alerts about threats to future debt sustainability in many emerging and developing economies. Global debt reached an astounding $199 trillion in 2014, up from $21 trillion in 1984.
TDB
05 October 2015Emerging debt crises pose a threat to the new global development agenda, follow-up to UN resolution needed

​A round table discussion warns of new debt crises and the challenges these will pose to the Sustainable Development Goals if the world does not agree on a new, more effective legal mechanism to restructure sovereign debt. Civil society urges UNCTAD to continue its work on the issue.

TDB 62nd session
25 September 2015Debt sustainability takes centre stage at Trade and Development Board

​Representatives of member States contributing to discussions at the sixty-second session of the Trade and Development Board praised UNCTAD's work on sovereign debt crises and the search for a new mechanism to deal with them.

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 Publications

 
DMFASINFO - NEWSLETTER No. 14, Autumn 2002 (UNCTAD/GDS/DMFAS/Misc.34)
30 Sep 2002, 19 page(s), 454.0 KB
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DMFAS - NEWSLETTER No. 13, Nov. 2001 (UNCTAD/GDS/DMFAS/Misc.24)
31 Oct 2001, 12 page(s), 460.0 KB
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DMFAS - NEWSLETTER No. 12, Winter 1999/2000 (UNCTAD/GDS/DMFAS/Misc.13)
30 Nov 1999, 19 page(s), 755.0 KB
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