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Approaches about sovereign insolvency

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Abstract

This article addresses some scholar proposals and regulations regarding the challenges involved when countries cannot pay in due manner and time their sovereign debts. It emphasizes the importance in the international context of establishing basis for a common framework on the matter and the difficulties that some of the proposals raised in that regard have faced.

Keywords:

Sovereign insolvency, international bankruptcy regulation, sovereign debt issuance agreements

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