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

 
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09 September 2015United Nations General Assembly to vote on debt restructuring principles
In response to Argentina's "vulture funds" crisis and growing concerns about sovereign debt problems elswhere, the United Nations General Assembly tasked UNCTAD with ways to improve sovereign debt restructuring processes.
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29 July 2015United Nations lays down clear principles in tackling sovereign debt
United Nations responds to sovereign debt crises by adopting principles, with UNCTAD support, that could underlie a new legal framework and regulatory mechanisms.
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13 July 2015Five ways the Republic of the Congo is benefiting from an improved management of its external debt statistics
Since 2012, the national debt office of the Republic of the Congo has received support from UNCTAD's Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS) Programme and this has resulted in five tangible benefits.
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28 April 2015Sovereign Debt Workouts - Roadmap and Guide published by UNCTAD
In an effort to help to resolve future sovereign debt crises of the sort that have tested governments from Iceland to Argentina to Greece since the global financial meltdown of 2008, UNCTAD has published a "roadmap" of steps that countries can take before and during debt restructuring.
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10 April 2015Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz backs UNCTAD's work on debt workouts
A workshop on a multilateral legal framework for debt restructuring processes took place on March 31st 2015, at Columbia University in New York City.
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 Publications

 
DMFASINFO - NEWSLETTER, No. 15, 1st Semester 2003 (UNCTAD/GDS/DMFAS/MISC/2003/1)
30 Jun 2003, 22 page(s), 22.0 KB
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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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