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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821997603321

Autore

Clements Benedict J

Titolo

External debt, public investment, and growth in low-income countries / / prepared by Benedict Clements, Rina Bhattacharya and Toan Quoc Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Dept., 2003

ISBN

1-4623-9505-8

1-4527-2177-7

1-283-56557-9

9786613878021

1-4519-2050-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 pages)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/03/249

Altri autori (Persone)

BhattacharyaRina

NguyenToan Quoc

Soggetti

Debts, External - Developing countries

Public investments - Developing countries

Developing countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cover title.

"December 2003"--Caption.

At head of title: Fiscal Affairs Department.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. SUMMARY OF THE LITERATURE ON EXTERNAL DEBT AND GROWTH""; ""III. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""APPENDIX I""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines the channels through which external debt affects growth in low-income countries. Our results suggest that the substantial reduction in the stock of external debt projected for highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) would directly increase per capita income growth by about 1 percentage point per annum. Reductions in external debt service could also provide an indirect boost to growth through their effects on public investment. If half of all debt-service relief were channeled for such purposes without increasing the budget



deficit, then growth could accelerate in some HIPCs by an additional 0.5 percentage point per annum.