I’d be really interested to see this! It’s one of those causes that pops up from time to time in writing by EA-adjacent organizations, but I don’t have a sense for what the core numbers even look like (e.g. what debt relief allows countries to accomplish that isn’t feasible without debt relief, what the actual cost of relief is to countries that hold debt).
In case this data point is useful when thinking about what knowledge/views some readers may come to the table with: Pretty much all I currently know about debt relief is some half-remembered arguments from The Dictator’s Handbook for why debt relief might be actively bad.
(Not saying these arguments are correct. Also not sure if “country-to-country debt relief” differs in important ways from the type of “debt relief” which that book critiqued.)
Thinking of writing a shallow cause profile on lobbying for country-to-country debt relief
I’d be really interested to see this! It’s one of those causes that pops up from time to time in writing by EA-adjacent organizations, but I don’t have a sense for what the core numbers even look like (e.g. what debt relief allows countries to accomplish that isn’t feasible without debt relief, what the actual cost of relief is to countries that hold debt).
Thanks for commenting! I actually forgot I was meaning to do this… Maybe I’ll find some time over the next few weeks!
In case this data point is useful when thinking about what knowledge/views some readers may come to the table with: Pretty much all I currently know about debt relief is some half-remembered arguments from The Dictator’s Handbook for why debt relief might be actively bad.
(Not saying these arguments are correct. Also not sure if “country-to-country debt relief” differs in important ways from the type of “debt relief” which that book critiqued.)