What Does Motivate Lending and Aid to the Hipcs?

33 Pages Posted: 19 Nov 2004

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Silvia Marchesi

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS); Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Center for European Studies (CefES); University of Milan - Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA)

Alessandro Missale

University of Milan - Department of Business Policy and Economics

Date Written: August 10, 2004

Abstract

We examine both grants and net loans made to low income countries during the last two decades to understand the main reasons that motivated the behaviour of both donors and creditors. We find that the total amount of transfers to HIPCs, as compared to non-HIPCs, have been increasing with their debt level. Greater net transfers have taken the form of net loans from multilateral organizations and grants in exchange for loans from bilateral institutions. The evidence thus suggests that HIPCs have kept receiving large amounts of resources just because of their high indebtedness, thereby supporting both the hypothesis of defensive lending and defensive granting.

Keywords: Debt relief, foreign aid, highly indebted poor countries

JEL Classification: C23, F34, F35, O19

Suggested Citation

Marchesi, Silvia and Missale, Alessandro, What Does Motivate Lending and Aid to the Hipcs? (August 10, 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=621042 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.621042

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