A debt overhang model for low-income countries

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 654-678

  Koeda, Junko ^a  

^a IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department

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EID: 56249141834     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: 15645150     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/imfsp.2008.13     Document Type: Article

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