Foreword, Preface, Table of Contents, and Executive Summary 1. The Debt Burden and Sustainable Human Development Global Goals, Finance and Government Outputs Magnitude of the HIPC Debt Crisis 2. Existing Mechanisms for Debt Restructuring Commercial Bank Debt Relief: From the Baker Plan to the Brady Initiative Bilateral Debt Relief: The Paris Club The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative 3. Capacity-Building for Effective Debt Management Institutional Environments and Human Resource Management Software Design Financing Capacity-Building Linking Debt Management to Macroeconomic and Financial Policies 4. UNDP and Debt Advocating Additional Debt Relief The National Partnership Facility Capacity-Building for Effective Debt Management Annex 1. Human Development Approaches to Debt Sustainability Annex 2. The National Partnership Facility Appendices References