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Grants Vs . Investment Subsidies

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  • Ashok S. Rai
  • Tomas Sjostrom

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How should a government intervene to help the credit constrained poor? We study an economy where productivity and wealth are unobserved, and loans must be collateralized. We show that the e¢cient policy typically consists of o¤ering both a grant and an investment subsidy. Everybody will take the grant and only the relatively productive will take the subsidy. This policy reduces but does not eliminate investment distortions.

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  • Ashok S. Rai & Tomas Sjostrom, 2001. "Grants Vs . Investment Subsidies," CID Working Papers 84, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
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    Keywords

    credit constraints; collateral; intervention; loan subsidy; grant;
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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