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Introduction: A Productive Partnership between Civil Society and the Academy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

Ross P. Buckley
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales in Sydney
Ross P. Buckley
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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There is a considerable history behind this volume. I first researched and wrote about debt exchanges some 12 years ago. Five years later Bill Walker, who then chaired Jubilee Australia's Policy Working Group, approached me with the idea of drafting a submission to the Australian government on why it should consider undertaking such exchanges. Steven Freeland and I wrote this submission to Treasury in 2003. In 2005 Bill Walker and I together wrote Jubilee Australia's official submission to AusAid for its white paper consultation. Later in that year I spoke at an AusAid event in Sydney.

In late 2006 I spoke at a Make Poverty History conference in Melbourne on debt-for-development exchanges, and that campaign's media liaison staff worked to ensure that an opinion piece I'd written on the idea appeared in the Australian Financial Review on the day of the conference. As a result of reading the opinion piece, Bob Sercombe, opposition spokesman on overseas development assistance, came along to listen and asked questions in private afterwards. At about the same time, World Vision Australia (where Bill Walker has his day job) sponsored a research assistant to work on more formal scholarly research on the topic, and the outcome of that work appeared in 2007.

In April 2007 Adele Webb and Luke Fletcher of Jubilee Australia organised an event titled “Is Australia a Responsible Lender?”

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Debt-for-Development Exchanges
History and New Applications
, pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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References

Buckley, Ross, “Debt Exchanges Revisited: Lessons from Latin America for Eastern Europe”, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 18 (1998): 655–684Google Scholar
Buckley, Ross, “Transparency Helps Narrow the Gap”, Australian Financial Review, November 16, 2006, 63Google Scholar
Buckley, Ross and Small, A., “Leveraging Australia's Debt Relief to the Philippines Using Debt-for- Investment Projects”, Macquarie Law Journal 7 (2007): 107–124Google Scholar

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