Despite the frequency of official debt restructurings, little systematic evidence has been produced on their characteristics and implications. Using a dataset covering more than 400 Paris Club agreements, this paper fills that gap. It provides a comprehensive description of the evolving...

In Mexico, the states receive funding in three different ways: local tax revenue, federal revenue sharing (Branch 28) and federal contributions (Branch 33). The local tax revenue represents a small percentage of the total state revenue, which averages 7.2% of the total revenue. Tamaulipas'...

This paper focuses on the debt build-up that frontier low-income developing countries (LIDCs) have faced since 2012. First, it documents a 20-percentage point increase in the external and government debt-to-GDP ratios, a composition shift toward higher non-concessional debt, and a rise in...