Debt Build-up in Frontier Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) since 2012 : Global or Country-specific Factors and Way Forward? /

This paper focuses on the debt build-up that frontier low-income developing countries (LIDCs) have faced since 2012. First, it documents a 20-percentage point increase in the external and government debt-to-GDP ratios, a composition shift toward higher non-concessional debt, and a rise in interest r...

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Glavni avtor: de Soyres, Constance
Drugi avtorji: Rogantini Picco, Anna, Sab, Randa
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/037
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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Izvleček:This paper focuses on the debt build-up that frontier low-income developing countries (LIDCs) have faced since 2012. First, it documents a 20-percentage point increase in the external and government debt-to-GDP ratios, a composition shift toward higher non-concessional debt, and a rise in interest rate payments. Second, using panel regressions, it shows that while both global and country-specific factors are correlated with debt-to-GDP ratios over 1998-2016, global factors dominate for the period 2012-16. Third, through a small open-economy model, it shows that the projected tightening in global financial conditions would reduce debt-to-GDP ratios by less than the increase associated with the expected rise in investment.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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