External Finance for Low-Income Countries

September 12, 1997

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External Finance for Low-Income Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

Edited by Zubair Iqbal and Ravi Kanbur, this volume consists of papers presented at a joint IMF and World Bank conference on external financing for low-income countries. The primary focus was on the impact of external indebtedness on low-income countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, the HIPC Debt initiative, the determinants and role of private capital flow, policies that could be implemented to catalyze private capital flows, and the appropriate role for official finance in the period ahead.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Balance of payments, Capital outflows, Debt burden, Debt reduction, Debt relief, Debt service, External debt

Keywords: Africa, Assistance strategy, BOOK, Capital outflows, Caribbean, Central Africa, Debt burden, Debt forgiveness, Debt initiative, Debt problem, Debt reduction, Debt relief, Global, Low-income country, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

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