Trésor-Economics No. 186 - Economic risks and rewards for first-time sovereign bond issuers since 2007
(Update on June 15, 2017)Back in 1989, the Brady Plan enabled developing countries to extricate themselves from a solvency crisis that had severely hampered their growth throughout the 1980s. Under the Plan bank loans to these countries were exchanged for bonds with lower face values and longer maturities. The success of the Plan marked a turning point for middle-income countries (MICs). They star... Lire la suite