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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813823703321

Autore

Zettelmeyer Jeromin

Titolo

Implicit transfers in IMF lending, 1973-2003 / / prepared by Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Priyadarshani Joshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-4623-3571-3

1-4527-3403-8

1-282-10724-0

1-4519-0563-7

9786613800596

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/05/8

Altri autori (Persone)

JoshiPriyadarshani

Soggetti

Loans - Developing countries

Subsidies - Developing countries

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.