Debt Growth and the Prospects for Debt Reduction;The Case of Sub-Saharan African Countries.

This paper analyzes the causes of growth of Africa's debt burden, and discusses the factors that induced African countries to seek external loans as well as the factors affecting the supply of external financing. The paper studies the development of some measures of debt burden for different ca...

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Соавтор: International Monetary Fund
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/071
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF
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