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• Q and A with UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on a new Roadmap and Guide for debt restructurings
  28 May 2015, by Eurodad

  This month Eurodad interviewed Richard Kozul-Wright, director of UNCTAD’s Globalisation and Development Strategies Division, on the UNCTAD’s new Roadmap and Guide for Sovereign Debt Workouts.
  Why did the UNCTAD develop this Roadmap and Guide and why now?
  We have a long history of thinking about this issue, starting with the previous crisis in Latin America in the 1980s. Five to six years ago a group of experts, working with UNCTAD staff, began fashioning a set of principles for responsible (...)

• Why a United Nations sovereign debt restructuring framework is key to implementing the post-2015 sustainable development agenda
  23 February 2016, by Eurodad

  In September, the United Nations will agree on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), a new set of targets that will shape the international development agenda for the next 15 years. The restructuring of sovereign debt has been identified by the United Nations Open Working Group (OWG) as something the world must get right if it is to successfully implement these goals. Yet crippling national debt crises persist, and no system exists to restructure these debts in a speedy and effective (...)