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Amelung, T. Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Ein Finanzierungsinstrument zur Entschuldung und zum Umweltschutz in der Dritten Welt?. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 25(2), 295-321. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.25.2.295
Amelung, Torsten "Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Ein Finanzierungsinstrument zur Entschuldung und zum Umweltschutz in der Dritten Welt?" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 25.2, 1992, 295-321. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.25.2.295
Amelung, Torsten (1992): Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Ein Finanzierungsinstrument zur Entschuldung und zum Umweltschutz in der Dritten Welt?, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 25, iss. 2, 295-321, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.25.2.295
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Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Ein Finanzierungsinstrument zur Entschuldung und zum Umweltschutz in der Dritten Welt?

Amelung, Torsten

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 25 (1992), Iss. 2 : pp. 295–321

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Torsten Amelung, Kiel

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Abstract

Debt-for-Nature Swaps: An Instrument for Environmental Projection and Debt Reduction in the Third World?

The increasing environmental degradation in many developing countries has been partly traced back to the high degree of indebtedness in these countries. Accordingly, so-called debt-for-nature swaps (DNS) have been implemented which comprise an exchange of environmental protection for foreign debt relief. However, their impact in terms of debt reduction has been negligible. The further expansion of DNS has been hindered by the lack of financial capacity of the funding agencies and by the limitations of the secondary markets. On top of that, it is not yet clear whether a debt reduction generally creates incentives for environmental protection. In theory, an increase in indebtedness can cause a decline of environmental degradation given an initial high level of indebtedness. As the case of deforestation of rain forests shows, neither a positive nor a negative relationship between environmental degradation and indebtedness can be confirmed. This has important implications for the assessment of DNS and other similar transfers to developing countries. Such arrangements should not be settled without conditionalities, since a mere reduction of indebtedness does not guarantee an improvement of environmental quality in the respective country.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Torsten Amelung: Debt-for-Nature Swaps:\rEin Finanzierungsinstrument zur\rEntschuldung und zum Umweltschutz\rin der Dritten Welt? 295
I. Einleitung 295
II. Bisherige Erfahrungen mit DNS 296
III. Die Beziehung zwischen Auslandsverschuldung und Umweltzerstörung 304
IV. Der empirische Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltschutz und Auslandsverschuldung 311
V. Zusammenfassung und Schluß 315
Literaturverzeichnis 319
Zusammenfassung: Debt-for-Nature Swaps: Ein Finanzierungsinstrument zur Entschuldung und zum Umweltschutz in der Dritten Welt? 320
Summary: Debt-for-Nature Swaps: An Instrument for Environmental Projection and Debt Reduction in the Third World? 321
Résumé: Debt-for-Nature-Swaps: Un instrument de financement en vue du désendettement et de la protection de l'environnement dans les pays du tiers monde? 321

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