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  Have trade policy reforms led to a greater openness in developing countries? : evidence from readily available trade data

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  The developing countries that began trading moreopenly in the 1980s did so incrementally ,shock therapy was uncommon. Asian countries led in trade reform and openness, so their exportled growth performance was not surprising. African countries trailedin reform and have still not become as open as other countries.
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  Access to long term debt and effects on firms' performance : lessons from Ecuador

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Does the availability of long-term financing affecta firm's productivity (by facilitating access to more productive technologies) and capital accumulation?
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  The Demand for Base Money and the Sustainability of Public Debt

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Anything policy makers can do to increase the demand for base money will help solve public debt problems.
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  Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the onset of the debt crisis in the early 1980s, many heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), continue to have difficulty in paying their external debt-service obligations, largely because of exogenous factors, imprudent debt-management policies, and the lack of sustained adjustment or implementation of structural reforms.
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  Labor Market Adjustment in Canada and the United States

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the early 1980s, the aggregate unemployment rate in Canada has been persistently higher than that in the United States. However, existing research has failed to identify conclusively the proximate determinant for the persistent unemployment gap between these two countries.
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  An Analysis of External Debt and Capital Flight in the Severely Indebted Low Income Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Over the past 15 years, the external debt burden in many of the severely indebted low income countries in sub-Saharan Africa has worsened. As the severity of external indebtedness has increased in this region, so has capital flight.
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  External debt statistics (selected data online)

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999

  OECD is the major source of creditor-based statistics on external debt. Debt stock and debt service statistics are available by category of debt, with world-wide coverage of non-OECD countries, for the period 1983 to 1995, as well as estimates of 1996 repayments on long-term debt.
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  Debt reduction and new loans : a contracting perspective

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
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  External finance and foreign debt in central and eastern European countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
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  Sources of debt accumulation in a small open economy

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  It is widely believed that developing countries borrowed heavily on international financial markets based on the perception that the favorable external environment (low world interest rates and increasing commodity prices) of the 1970s would last. But, the commodity price booms of the mid- and late 1970s were short-lived and the period of low interest rates ended by the early 1980s.

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