Debt Relief and Adjustment Incentives : A Theoretical Exploration.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the argument that debt relief would increase the incentive of a debtor country to make an adjustment effort (to invest) and that for this reason creditors may benefit by granting relief. It is shown that there are actually opposing incentive effects of debt re...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1988.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1988/036
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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