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| Title: | | Hiccups for HIPCs?  |
| Authors: | | Burnside, Craig Fanizza, Domenico |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | WIDER Discussion Papers // World Institute for Development Economics (UNU-WIDER) 2001/99 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we discuss monetary and fiscal policy issues facing heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPCs) who receive debt reduction via the enhanced HIPC initiative. This debt relief program is distinguished from previous ones by its conditionality: freed resources must be used for poverty reduction. We argue that (i) this conditionality limits the extent to which the initiative relaxes the government’s lifetime budget constraint; (ii) depending on the response of monetary policy to an increase in social spending there could be a short-term increase in inflation in HIPC countries, and (iii) the keys to longrun fiscal sustainability in the HIPCs are significant fiscal reforms by their governments, and the effectiveness of their poverty reduction programs in raising Growth. |
| Subjects: | | debt relief HIPCs conditionality government budget constraint |
| JEL: | | E31 H63 O11 O23 |
| ISBN: | | 9291900214 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Discussion Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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