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International Monetary Fund - 1988

Analyses of debt relief that focus on the behavior of debtors and existing creditors understate the incentives for collective action by creditors. It is well known that debt relief could benefit existing creditors by providing incentives for domestic investment by residents of debtor countries....

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Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt

International Monetary Fund - 2009

Low-income countries (LICs) face significant challenges in meeting their development objectives while maintaining a sustainable debt position. The international community's main answer to this dilemma has been to promote recourse to concessional external resources. The Fund's recommendations to...

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Global Liquidity : Credit and Funding Indicators

International Monetary Fund - 2013

This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented

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Japan : Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Credit Intermediation

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper is an analysis of Japan’s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed … aspects act as an impediment to credit control. The Executive Board expects restructuring of financial policies in government … this paper as a study of Japan’s thoughts in an efficient route to credit boom …

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Jamaica SME Finance

International Monetary Fund - 2015

micro-entrepreneurs, with credit unions providing mostly consumer finance and an underdeveloped microfinance sector. The … authorities aim to develop a micro-credit act to make it mandatory for multilateral investment funds (MIFs) to register, and to … sufficient coordination, and the partial credit guarantee scheme needs to be revamped. It also operates a partial credit …

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Tax Policy, Leverage and Macroeconomic Stability

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Risks to macroeconomic stability posed by excessive private leverage are significantly amplified by tax distortions. 'Debt bias' (tax provisions favoring finance by debt rather than equity) has increased leverage in both the household and corporate sectors, and is now widely recognized as a...

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Collateralized Transactions : Key Considerations for Public Lenders and Borrowers

International Monetary Fund - 2020

In a response to a request from the G20 IFA Working Group, this note provides a framework for public lenders and borrowers to assess collateralized financing practices from a development perspective. The work of the IMF and World Bank suggests that the availability of collateralized financing...

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Spillovers Through Banking Centers : A Panel Data Analysis

International Monetary Fund - 2000

To test the role of bank lending in transmitting currency crisis we examine a panel of BIS data on bank flows to 30 emerging markets disaggregated by 11 banking centers. We find that bank exposures to a crisis country help predict bank flows in third countries after the Mexican and Asian crisis,...

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Sources of Contagion : Finance or Trade?

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper presents evidence that spillovers through bank lending, as opposed to trade linkages and country characteristics, can help explain contagion. We construct a measure of competition for bank funds and find evidence in favor of a common lender effect in the Mexican, Thai, and Russian...

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Peru; Request for Stand-By Arrangementâ€”Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Peru

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This paper examines Peruâ€™s Request for a Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). Performance under the 2002â€“03 SBA was satisfactory. This performance provides a solid basis for continuing with policies aimed at maintaining macroeconomic stability. The authorities are requesting a 26-month SBA...

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