Analyzing Bangladesh's Debt Sustainability Using SimSIP Debt

26 Pages Posted: 14 Jul 2008

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Bernhard G. Gunter

Bangladesh Development Research Center (BDRC); American University - Department of Economics

A. F. M. Ataur Rahman

North South University

Date Written: June 12, 2008

Abstract

The ability to pay for a government-led investment strategy to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) is determined by the resources available to the government through economic growth, taxation, loans, and grants. Unsustainable public debts increase poverty directly through negative impacts on economic growth as well as indirectly through cuts in spending. Hence, the issue of fiscal debt sustainability is critical for achieving the MDGs. In this paper, we use the debt projection module of SimSIP Debt to project the evolution of Bangladesh's public debt over a 15-year horizon (from fiscal year 2006 to fiscal year 2021) under three different macroeconomic scenarios and two different financing scenarios of an ambitious government-led investment strategy.

Keywords: debt sustainability, public debt, MDGs

JEL Classification: O11

Suggested Citation

Gunter, Bernhard G. and Rahman, A. F. M. Ataur, Analyzing Bangladesh's Debt Sustainability Using SimSIP Debt (June 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1159216 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1159216

Bernhard G. Gunter (Contact Author)

Bangladesh Development Research Center (BDRC) ( email )

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American University - Department of Economics ( email )

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A. F. M. Ataur Rahman

North South University ( email )

Professor, Department of Economics
Bashundhara R/A
Dhaka, 1229
Bangladesh

HOME PAGE: http://www.northsouth.edu/

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