International Economic Conditions, Trade Policies, Exchange Rates, and Balance of Payments and Their Influence on LDC Growth

Scott Thomas

No 197429, 1987 Occasional Paper Series No. 4 from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: When the present value of the assets held by creditors ma firm is not fully recoverable within a reasonable time period, the firm is termed insolvent. Takmg net foreign exchange earnings as receipts and debt service payments as expenditures, this measure of solvency may be applied to the analysis of the creditworthiness of major debtor countries, with the modification that, for a country to be deemed solvent, a principal reschedulingcum- interest deferral scheme must not result (5 years later) in a significantly higher probabiltty of havtng to reschedule. Empirical analysis of several major debtor countries using this methodology leads to the conclusion that interest payments from some countries will not be recoverable (under any feasible scheme to retain the present' value of the debt) without persistent recession. Instead, the prospect for these countries is ltkely to be a pattern of chronic mability to meet debt service obligations and of stagnating or falling gross domestic product.

Keywords: Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.197429

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