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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...

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The Relative Importance of Political and Economic Variables in Creditworthiness Ratings

International Monetary Fund - 1998

This study examines the relative importance of political and economic variables in the determination of a country’s standing in credit ratings provided by commercial rating agencies. It finds that creditworthiness appears to be determined primarily by economic variables. While including...

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Large Natural Disasters : Enhancing the Financial Safety Net for Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2017

The Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) and Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) are valuable components of the disaster risk … access limits of 60 percent of quota under the RCF and RFI for countries experiencing severe natural disaster-related damages …. The focus of this paper is to specify the threshold of damage from a natural disaster that would allow members …

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From Banking to Sovereign Stress : Implications For Public Debt

International Monetary Fund - 2014

This paper explores how banking sector developments and characteristics influence the propagation of risks from the banking sector to sovereign debt, including how they affect the extent of fiscal costs of banking crises when those occur. It then proposes practices and policies for the fiscal...

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Investment, Openness and Country Risk

International Monetary Fund - 1987

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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Foreign Borrowing and Export Promotion Policies

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper considers the problem of allocation of investment for a debtor country that faces a ceiling on the amount of foreign debt it can accumulate. It shows that it is optimal for the debtor country to create a more open economy by favoring investment in the export sector over investment in...

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Growth, External Debt and Sovereign Risk in a Small Open Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper constructs and analyzes an optimizing model of a highly-indebted small open economy. An important innovation in the model is the incorporation of sovereign risk through the specification of an upward-sloping foreign debt supply function. The model is used to examine the interaction...

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The Economic Content of Indicators of Developing Country Creditworthiness

International Monetary Fund - 1996

This paper analyzes the economic determinants of developing country creditworthiness indicators for over 60 developing countries for the period from 1980 to 1993. Our results indicate that economic fundamentals--the ratio of non-gold foreign exchange reserves to imports, the ratio of the current...

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Termination of the Emergency Post-Conflict and Natural Disaster Assistance Administered Subsidy Account

International Monetary Fund - 2014

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Catastrophe Containment And Relief Trust-Approval Of Grant Assistance For Debt Service Relief

International Monetary Fund - 2020

Public Health Disaster (QPHD) under the Catastrophe Containment (CC) Window of the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust …

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