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Debt Overhang or Debt Irrelevance? Revisiting the Debt Growth Link

Cordella, Tito; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Do Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) suffer from a debt overhang? Is debt relief going to improve their growth rates? To answer these important questions, we look at how the debt-growth relationship varies with indebtedness levels and other country characteristics in a panel of developing...

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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse; The Income Effect Channel

Alichi, Ali; Arezki, Rabah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The paper provides an alternative explanation for the "resource curse" based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies. Using a simple life cycle framework, we show that private investment in the non-resource sector is adversely affected if...

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The Elusive Gains From International Financial Integration

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Jeanne, Olivier - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of income convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this...

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Capital Flows to EU New Member States; Does Sector Destination Matter?

Mitra, Pritha - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The recent boom-bust episode in Emerging Europe was largely the product of surges and sudden stops in capital inflows. This paper empirically argues that the sectors into which capital flows determines their impact on GDP growth. Applying data from EU New Member States, it is found that capital...

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Financing Growth in the WAEMU Through the Regional Securities Market; Past Successes and Current Challenges

Diouf, Mame Astou; Boutin-Dufresne, Francois - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) regional securities market saw increasing activity in the last decade, but still fell short of supplying sufficient long-term financing for growth-enhancing public and private investment projects. In addition to providing an institutional...

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Aids, reversal of the demographic transition and economic development : evidence from Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2006

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Death and development

Lorentzen, Peter Lombard; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain - 2005

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Does the AIDS epidemic really threaten economic growth?

Bloom, David E. - 1995

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HIV/AIDS; The Impacton Poverty and Inequality

Haacker, Markus; Salinas, Gonzalo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African … countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on …

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The Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana

Sgherri, Silvia; MacFarlan, Maitland - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper provides an overview of the potential macroeconomic effects of HIV/AIDS in Botswana, focusing on the key … impact of HIV/AIDS, a dual-economy equilibrium model is constructed and simulated under different scenarios. Depending on … exactly how AIDS affects the outlook, GDP growth is projected to fall from around 5Â½ percent a year without the pandemic to …

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