Editors from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The matter of fairness in developing country debt -- Excessive indebtedness as an ethical problem / The Editors -- The players and the game of sovereign debt / Barry Herman -- Part II: Identifying responsibility for sovereign debt -- Fairness in sovereign debt / Christian Barry and Lydia Tomitova -- International debt : the constructive implications of some moral mathematics / Sanjay G. Reddy -- Should they honor the promises of their parents' leaders? / Axel Gosseries -- Risks of lending and liability of lenders / Kunibert Raffer -- National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief / Alexander W. Cappelen, Rune Jansen Hagen, Bertil Tungodden -- Part III: Perspectives from theology -- Judeo-Christian tradition on debt : political, not just ethical / Ton Veerkamp -- Making the case for jubilee : the Catholic Church and the poor-country debt movement / Elizabeth A. Donnelly -- Argentina, the church, and the debt / Thomas J. Trebat -- Part IV: International policy reform -- Achieving democracy / Thomas Pogge -- The due diligence model : a new approach to the problem of odious debts / Jonathan Shafter -- Reviving troubled economies / Jack Boorman -- The constructive role of private creditors / Arturo C. Porzecanski -- Resolving international debt crises fairly / Ann Pettifor.