Development Finance

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Blog Post

How Can DFIs Contribute to the COVID-19 Response?

Janeen Madan Keller et al.

April 23, 2020

DFIs are well positioned to address five pressure points in the COVID-19 response that need financing. Let’s unpack these one by one.

Blog Post

The COVID-19 Crisis and Budgetary Space for Health in Developing Countries

Sanjeev Gupta

and

Hélène Barroy

April 17, 2020

Virtually all countries in the world have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by implementing fiscal and monetary measures, significantly larger in relation to national output than those employed during the 2008 financial crisis. The magnitude of fiscal measures to counter the shock varies across devel...

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Addressing Debt Vulnerabilities

Masood Ahmed

and

Mark Plant

April 17, 2020

Around the turn of the century, there was a broad recognition that the debt burden of many developing countries was impeding their growth. Much of the debt had accumulated in the context of the Cold War and had not resulted in productive investment.

WORKING PAPER

Can Tax Buoyancy in Sub-Saharan Africa Help Finance the Sustainable Development Goals?

Sanjeev Gupta

and

Jianhong Liu

April 15, 2020

In this paper, we estimate short- and long-term tax buoyancy for 44 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during 1980-2017 using time series and panel techniques.