TY - BOOK AU - Wong,Yvonne TI - Sovereign finance and the poverty of nations: odious debt in international law SN - 9780857935021 PY - 2012///] CY - Cheltenham, UK PB - Edward Elgar KW - Debts, External KW - Law and legislation KW - Debts, Public KW - Debt relief N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The odious debts doctrine : an overview -- Sovereign debt and its legal framework -- History of sovereign debt -- Sovereign debt and the poverty of nations -- A new era for international finance -- Justifications for a law banning odious debts -- Current ideas for how the odious debts doctrine could apply in practice -- The New Approach Odious Debts Doctrine (NAODD) -- Concluding remark ER -