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Should Easier Access to Credit Replace Foreign Aid? A Trade-theoretic Analysis

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  • Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

    (St. Louis Fed)

  • Sajal Lahiri

    (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

  • Javed Younas

    (American University of Sharjah)

Abstract

We develop a two-period trade-theoretic model for a recipient country with credit constraints and develop a necessary and sufficient condition for replacing foreign aid by credit to be welfare improving.

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  • Subhayu Bandyopadhyay & Sajal Lahiri & Javed Younas, 2013. "Should Easier Access to Credit Replace Foreign Aid? A Trade-theoretic Analysis," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(3), pages 2320-2327.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-13-00310
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    Keywords

    Foreign aid; borrowing constraint; welfare; fungibility; public input.;
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    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade

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