Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52999 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/104
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper discusses some issues on how to evaluate the impact of HIPC debt relief in the cases of Tanzania and Zambia using two computable general equilibrium models. Within our relatively simple model framework, we found that the macroeconomic impact of debt relief is modest. One reason for this relatively modest impact is that the annual injection of additional resources relative to current actual debt service is small in both cases, which implies that the impact of debt relief per se would be expected to be modest. However, as illustrated in the case of Tanzania the impact could be considerably higher if additional public investment succeeds to improve private sector productivity. – HIPC ; Zambia ; Tanzania ; CGE-models ; growth
JEL: 
F34
O11
O19
ISBN: 
9291900311
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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