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Debt Overhang or Debt Irrelevance? Revisiting the Debt-Growth Link

Author/Editor: Tito Cordella, Luca Antonio Ricci, Marta Ruiz-Arranz.

Release Date:December, 2005

Do Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) suffer from a debt overhang? Is debt relief going to improve their growth rates? To answer these important questions, we look at how the debt-growth more...



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Grants Versus Loans

Author/Editor: Hulya Ulku, Tito Cordella.

Release Date:September, 2004

Under what conditions should grants be preferred to loans? To answer this question, we present a simple model à la Krugman (1988) and show that, for any given level of developmental assistance, the more...



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Country Insurance

Author/Editor: Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Tito Cordella.

Release Date:August, 2004

In this paper, we examine how the presence of country insurance schemes affects policymakers' incentives to undertake reforms. Such schemes (especially when made contingent on negative external more...



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Budget Support Versus Project Aid

Author/Editor: Tito Cordella, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia.

Release Date:April, 2003

Should donors who are interested in the effectiveness of developmental programs rely on conditional budget support or on project aid? To answer this question, we present a model in which only a more...



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Limits of Conditionality in Poverty Reduction Programs

Author/Editor: Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Tito Cordella.

Release Date:July, 2002

When donors and recipients have different preferences over budgetary allocations, conditionality helps the implementation of donor-financed poverty reduction programs. However, if donors cannot more...



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Public Disclosure and Bank Failures

Author/Editor: Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Tito Cordella.

Release Date:August, 1997

This paper examines how public disclosure of banks’ risk exposure affects banks’ risk-taking incentives and assesses how the presence of informed depositors influences the more...



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