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Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance Response: Evidence from a Panel of HIPC Countries

Cassimon, Danny; Campenhout, Bjorn Van - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 143 (2007) 4, pp. 742-763

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Debt Relief Effectiveness and Institution Building

Presbitero, Andrea F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The history of debt relief is now particularly long, the associated costs are soaring and the outcomes are at least uncertain. This paper reviews and provides new evidence on the effects of recent debt relief programs on different macroeconomic indicators in developing countries, focusing on the...

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Empirical evidence on the new international aid architecture

Claessens, Stijn; Cassimon, Danny - Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, … - 2007

passes the HIPC decision point. Importantly, PRSPs and HIPCs reduce the perverse effects of large bilateral and multilateral …

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Debt Relief and Adjustment Effort in a Multi Period Model

Tengstam, Sven - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

This paper shows that if the period following the granting of debt relief is taken into account, debt relief increases adjustment effort(investment), irrespective of whether there is an initial debt overhang or not. <p>

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Evaluation of the Fund for Special Operations during the Eighth Replenishment (1994-2010): Part II Title: Evaluación del fondo para operaciones especiales durante el Octavo Aumento...

Raw, Silvia; Sembler, Jose Ignacio; Sadeghi, Patricia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The objective of this evaluation is to complete the assessment of the performance of IDB's concessional lending program focusing on financial and developmental results. The evaluation found that the IDB remained the largest single source of concessional financing for the five poorest countries...

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The Debt-Growth Nexus: a Dynamic Panel Data Estimation

Presbitero Andrea F. - In: Rivista italiana degli economisti (2006) 3, pp. 417-462

This paper investigates the relationship between external debt and economic growth in developing countries. Notwithstanding a general agreement on theory, empirical evidence is not conclusive and lacks of robustness. This contribution aims to shed more light on the relationship between external...

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Dynamic fiscal impact of the debt relief initiatives on african heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)

Cassimon, Danny; Ferry, Marin; Raffinot, Marc; … - DIAL - 2013

(english) 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 Initiative (MDRI, 2005). A few papers tried to assess the desired …

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The fragile panacea of debt relief for developing countries

Green, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

recent months. I review a brief history of major debt relief for low-income countries including the recent HIPC initiative …

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Hiccups for HIPCs

Burnside, Craig; Fanizza, Domenico - EconWPA - 2003

debt reduction via the enhanced HIPC initiative. This debt relief program is distinguished from previous ones by its … an increase in social spending there could be a short-run increase in inflation in HIPC countries and (iii) the keys to …

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What Has 100 Billion Dollars Worth of Debt Relief Done for Low- Income Countries?

Chauvin, Nicolas Depetris; Kraay, Aart - EconWPA - 2005

Between 1989 and 2003, low-income countries received $100 billion in debt relief. The stated objectives for much of this debt relief have been to reduce debt overhang and to free up recipient government resources for development spending that would otherwise have been used for debt service. In...

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