Debt Overhang or Debt Irrelevance? : Revisiting the Debt-Growth Link /

Do Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) suffer from a debt overhang? Is debt relief going to improve their growth rates? To answer these important questions, we look at how the debt-growth relationship varies with indebtedness levels and other country characteristics in a panel of developing count...

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Glavni avtor: Cordella, Tito
Drugi avtorji: Ricci, Luca, Ruiz-Arranz, Marta
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/223
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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