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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Foreign Debt"”.
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Foreign debt and structural change in the "sick man of Europe"--the Ottoman Empire, 1850-1875
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1988.
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The United Nations Fund For Population Activities: Changing The Direction Of The Total Fertility Rate In Developing Nations
… least squares regression analysis. First, foreign debt is hypothesized to have a positive relationship to TFR. That is, holding all else constant, as foreign debt increases, TFR is expected to increase as well. Foreign debt is operationalized first, as total external debt; second, as …
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Analyzing Country Risk: Estimating the Probability of External Debt Repudiation in the Post-Oil-Embargo Decade
… cannot, or will not, adhere to the terms of its foreign debt obligations as a result of adverse political, social, economic, or financial disruptions. The discussion is divided into two parts. Part one is devoted to a review of the topic of assessing the likelihood of debt servicing difficulties …
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Essays on Capital Flows and Macroprudential Regulation
… depreciations increase the cost of servicing foreign debt for emerging economies, which often have significant proportions of foreign currency debt. How should central banks and governments in emerging economies respond? We answer this question by proposing macroprudential policies which …
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Peruvian trade policies in the 1960-1985 period
… and the role played by the exchange rate and the foreign debt are emphasized.
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Growth constraints and external vulnerability in Argentina
… terms of trade, that the increase in external debt does not produce economic growth or improvements in the purchasing power of the population, and that there is a vicious dynamic between capital flight and foreign debt. At the same time, there is evidence of the increase in external …
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Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: America Attempts to Collect its War Debts 1922-1934.
… which the United States attempted to compel the debtor nations to begin repaying their loans.</p><p>The central theme of the thesis was developed largely from primary sources, including Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, diplomatic message traffic, and minutes and reports of the …
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Inflation in Brazil: 1974-1980
… and 1973 to US $12.9 billion in 1980; the net foreign debt rose from a yearly average of US $5.5 billion in 1971 and 1973 to US $46.9 billion in 1980. (US $61 billion in December 1981.) Consequently, the ratio of the country's debt servicing outlays to its export revenues practically doubled …
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Financial frictions and exports dynamics in large devaluations
… shocks, where rms face nancing constraints and debt can be denominated in domestic or foreign units. In our model, a real depreciation a ects rms through two channels. On the one hand, it increases the returns to selling internationally, making exporting more pro table. On the other hand, it …
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Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Egypt's Etatist System
… and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It demonstrates how the Egyptian state was transformed from the etatist system that had characterized it since the 1952 revolution. Using the etatist system as a basic concept for understanding the Egyptian state since …
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Current account sustainability: evidence from South Africa
… the dollar gold price), and increasing levels of foreign debt. Reversal periods are typically also associated with rising levels of exports and falling levels of imports. While developments on the capital account were expected, prime facie, to have had a significant impact on the current account, …
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Effects of South Korean Market Liberalization on the South Korean Retail Market
… of the South Korean currency, and an increasing foreign debt. Currently South Korea is struggling to compete with products from both industrialized nations and newly industrializing nations. The current crisis has occurred as South Korea has been engaged in extensive market-opening. Knowledge is …
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Boom and gloom: comparing diverse development outcomes among oil- and mineral-dependent developing countries
… show that the negative impacts of dependence on foreign direct investment and foreign debt on development cannot be ignored. Therefore, the divergence in outcomes among these countries depends on a particular constellation and intersection of local and global factors. Second, the construction of …
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An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between the Namibian Government Debt and Economic Growth
The association between government debt and economic growth is complex. Namibia is not excluded from this spectacle as concerns are mounting about the fast-increasing state debt and its implication on economic growth in the long run. By the end of 2016, government debt constituted 40.6 percent of …
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Essays on Energy and Behavioral Financial Economics
… capabilities, and heavy reliance on foreign debt in capital investments. These factors tend to disproportionately affect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which currently hold a sizeable share of renewable and distributed energy technology investments. Not only does this …
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Three Essays on the Credit Dimension of Monetary Policy
… international credit lines, repay part of their foreign debt, tap the local market for funds and cause spreads to increase in the domestic market. This increases financing costs for all firms, causes a deterioration of the balance of payments and depresses output. Calibrating the model to match …
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Indebtedness during the military government: a study of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil
… chosen by the military, which relied strongly on foreign loans from the Eurocurrency markets, reproduced a model of economic development that proved to be unsustainable. The fact that these funds were able to move freely with the incentive laws created by the military left the Brazilian internal …