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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788527103321

Autore

Joshi Priyadarshani

Titolo

Implicit Transfers in IMF Lending, 1973–2003 / / Priyadarshani Joshi, Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2005

ISBN

1-4623-3571-3

1-4527-3403-8

1-282-10724-0

1-4519-0563-7

9786613800596

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ZettelmeyerJeromin

Soggetti

Loans - Developing countries

Subsidies - Developing countries

Banks and Banking

Financial Risk Management

Macroeconomics

Industries: Financial Services

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Finance

Debt relief

Personal income

SDR interest rate

Loans

Market interest rates

Debts, External

Income

Interest rates

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2005."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. POTENTIAL SOURCES OF IMF TRANSFERS""; ""III. METHODOLOGY AND DATA""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX I""; ""APPENDIX II""; ""APPENDIX III""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

We compute realized transfers implicit in IMF lending from 1973-2003, based on 2003 IMF repayment projections and promised debt relief. IMF lending rates to high-and middleincome countries fell short of industrial country borrowing rates by 30-150 basis points over the period as a whole, but exhibited a small premium after 1987. The subsidy received by low-income and HIPC countries was much higher (400-600 basis points, respectively). In 2002 NPV terms, cumulative transfers were 12-15 percent of 2002 GDP for the HIPCs, 2-3 percent for low income countries, and less than ¾ percent for the emerging market countries.