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After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...
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After two debt relief initiatives launched in 1996 (the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC Initiative) and in 1999 (The enhanced HIPC initiative), the G7 decided to go further by cancelling (most of) the remaining multilateral debt for these HIPC countries through the Multilateral Debt Relief...
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We study the issue of income convergence across countries and regions with a Bayesian model which allows us to use … information in an efficient and flexible way. We argue that the very slow convergence rates to a common level of per-capita income … introduces in the results. Our approach permits the estimation of different convergence rates to different steady states for each …
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examines what is the best way for candidate countries to fuel real convergence. The experience from earlier EU enlargements and … should be terminated as soon as possible. Second, labour and capital mobility are good for growth and economic convergence …
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Global Budget Support should contribute to give some sense to the national process of budget allocation. The case of Burkina Faso shows that progress has been made in this direction. Nevertheless, the links between strategies and budgetisation remain weak, namely because of budget dualism. The...
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The international financial crisis is likely to produce very different impacts on the various African countries, depending on their degree of openness to commercial and financial flows. The volume of foreign flows is a matter of concern given that exports, loans, public grants and remittances...
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In this paper we use a simple standard overlapping generations model to assess the impact of foreign aid. Donors are not able to modify the sharing out of aid between old and young in the recipient economy. This assumption is in line with the deference to the elders, which characterises the...
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