Grants Versus Loans /

Under what conditions should grants be preferred to loans? To answer this question, we present a simple model a la Krugman (1988) and show that, for any given level of developmental assistance, the optimal degree of loan concessionality is positively associated with economic growth if countries are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulku, Hulya
Other Authors: Cordella, Tito
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/161
Online Access:Full text available on IMF