Officially supported export credits: Developments and prospects

Year of Publication
1988
Author(s)
K. Burke Dillon, Luis Duran-Downing, Miranda Xafa
Publisher
IMF
Document Type
Paper

Abstract:

This study discusses the importance of export credits, their recent growth, and the trend toward more extensive reliance by official bilateral creditors on export credits as an instrument of financial support, and raises a number of issues regarding the role and limitations of export credit financing, espeically for economies in transition.