Date
2013
Publisher city
Paris
Publisher
IRD
Collection title
DIAL Document de travail
Collection Id
DT/2013-03
Dewey
Croissance et développement économiques
Sujet
Debt relief; Low Income countries; Causality in panels; Access to the market
JEL code
C.C2.C23; F.F3.F34; O.O1.O16
Author
Raffinot, Marc
status unknown
Venet, Baptiste
status unknown
Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Item number of pages
16
Abstract (EN)
LICs have no access to international financial markets. Since the nineties, LICs have been granted debt relief by bilateral creditors andby international financing institutions, namely from 1996 on underHighly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and from 2005 onunder Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Did those debt relief initiatives send a negative message to the lenders, deterring themto lend to the LICs? For assessing this we use the concessionality rate of new financing flows as a measurement of the “distance to the market” and assess the impact of debt relief on the concessionality rate implementing a Granger causality tests using panel data, a methodology perfected by Hurlin (2004, 2005) and Hurlin and Venet (2004).We show that countries with high concessionality resources are morelikely to get debt relief, but that debt relief does not "cause" higher concessionality.