Officially Supported Export Credits: Developments and Prospects

ByChristopher J. Jarvis, Balázs Horváth, Michael G. Kuhn

December 1, 1995

Summary

This study discusses the importance of export credits, their recent growth, and the trend toward more extensive reliance by official bilateral creditors on export credits as an instrument of financial support, and raises a number of issues regarding the role and limitations of export credit financing, espeically for economies in transition.

Subject: Commercial banks, Credit, Economic sectors, Export credits, Exports, Financial institutions, International trade, Money, Public sector

Keywords: Africa, agency, Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, Commercial banks, country, cover policy, Credit, Eastern Europe, Europe, export credit, export credit activity, export credit agency, export credit commitment, Export credits, Exports, financing, Public sector, supported export credits, WEFS

Pages:
58
Volume:
1995
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557754486.083
Issue:
003
Series:
World Economic and Financial Surveys No. 1995/003
Stock No:
WEOEA0051995
ISBN:
9781557754486
ISSN:
0258-7440

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Notes

1986. By Eduard Brau, K. Burke Dillon, Chanpen Puckahtikom, and Miranda Xafa (under the title Export Credits: Developments and Prospects). 34 pp. ISBN 0-939934-69-8. Stock #WEO-586. 1988. By K. Burke Dillon and Luis Duran-Downing, with Miranda Xafa. vi+47 pp. ISBN 1-55775-006-8. Stock #WEO-588. 1990. By G. G. Johnson, Matthew Fisher, and Elliot Harris. vi+43 pp. ISBN 1-55775-139-0. Stock #WEO-590. 1995. By Michael G. Kuhn, Balazs Horvath, and Christopher J. Jarvis. vii+47 pp. ISBN 1-55775-480-2.

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