This paper, in using cross-section pooled logit, probit, and fixed-effects logit models, empirically explores the main factors affecting the rescheduling of contractual debt-service payments by heavily indebted poor countries (HICPs) in the late 1980s and the 1990s. The results seem to suggest...

The transformation of the world economy over the past two decades has been manifesting itself in various forms. On the one hand, there is an increasing interdependence of the world economy, which is a manifestation of the depth of the globalization process, mainly thanks to the expansion of...

This paper finds that poverty (the savings gap), income instability, and external factors that include debt service payments and capital flight to be the main causes of overseas borrowing by developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. As far as the empirical strategy is concerned, the...