Debt Relief, Additionality, and Aid Allocation in Low Income Countries

September 1, 2003

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Robert Powell. Debt Relief, Additionality, and Aid Allocation in Low Income Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper models the resource implications of debt relief provided to low-income countries (LICs). Obtaining debt relief does not necessarily lead to individual aid-dependent countries receiving more overall resources from the donor community. Preliminary cross-section estimates suggest that debt relief provided to low-income countries in the period 1996 2000 neither crowded out other non-debt relief-related aid flows to the debtors concerned nor created significant extra net resources for those countries. While it is too early to fully assess the resource implications of the enhanced HIPC Initiative, this paper provides a possible approach to such an evaluation.

Subject: Aid flows, Asset and liability management, Debt reduction, Debt relief, Debt service payments, External debt, Foreign aid

Keywords: Ability to pay, Additionality, Aid, Aid flows, Aid receipt, Aid-disbursement decision, Debt forgiveness, Debt reduction, Debt relief, Debt service payments, Debt-relief initiative, Global, HIPCs, Low-income countries, ODA flow, Recipient country, Resource transfer, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

22
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2003/175
Stock No:

WPIEA1752003
ISBN:

9781451858778
ISSN:

1018-5941

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