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Borrowing costs and the role of multilateral development banks : evidence from cross-border syndicated bank lending
Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Presbitero, Andrea; Sarmiento, Miguel - 2018
Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978454
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Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks
Broccolini, Chiara; Lotti, Giulia; Maffioli, Alessandro; … - 2019
We use loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), controlling for a large set of fixed effects. We find evidence of positive and significant direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009274
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Toward An Economic Theory of Multilateral Development Banking
Schwartz, Gerd - 1993
This paper addresses an apparent lack of economic theory in the analysis of multilateral development bank (MDB) behavior. A simple comparative statics model that is adapted from the credit union literature is used to predict potential areas of conflict, agreement, and indifference between MDB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398226
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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? : Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - 2002
. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding … poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399786
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Public Financial Institutions in Developed Countries : Organization and Oversight
Ratnovski, Lev - 2007
While public financial institutions (such as public development banks) are commonly associated with developing countries, in fact they are prevalent in the developed world as well. We study a sample of public financial institutions in industrialized countries and identify dominant trends in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400430
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The IMF and Tax Reform
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The paper deals with the activities of Fund staff with taxation. It is made up of four parts. Part I outlines the connection between Fund major activities and taxation. Part II surveys general influences on Fund staff with implications for tax work. Part III outlines the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396344
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Afghanistan : balancing social and security spending in the context of shrinking resource envelope
Aslam, Aqib; Berkes, Enrico; Fukač, Martin; Menkulasi, Jeta - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757325
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BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs
Mwase, Nkunde; Yang, Yongzheng - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679640
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A time to build : does technical assistance matter for revenue mobilization?
Chami, Ralph; Darkey, Elorm; Williams, Oral Highworth - 2021
We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518287
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Determinants of pre-pandemic demand for the IMF’s concessional financing
Hills, Timothy; Nguyen, Huy; Sab, Randa - 2021
This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are...
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