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Trade & Payements
IMF's SDRM Proposals: An Updated Critique of Conceptual Issues
Smitha Francis  

While the IMF's SDRM proposal was originally guided by the central tenet that the international financial system lacks a strong legal framework for the predictable, rapid and equitable restructuring of sovereign debt, subsequent evolution has seen it reduced to a shadow of its original intentions, and the balance has now tilted entirely in favour of the interests of the creditor community. At another level, the Fund's discussion has degenerated into attempts to consolidate its own role in global finance and in the financial affairs of the debtor countries.

May 20, 2003.

 
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