Dilip Ratha

 

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NEW: “New Paths to Funding.” This article in the June 2009 issue of Finance and Development discusses performance-indexed bonds, diaspora bonds, securitization of future remittances and export earnings as possible means for restoring or starting access of poor country borrowers to international capital markets.

The impact of financial crisis on migration and remittance flows in Sub-Saharan Africa, video and powerpoint presentation, April 28, 2009.

Migration and Development Brief #9 on crisis, remittances and migration, March 23, 2009.

BOOK: Innovative Financing for Development

"On Finite Lifetimes and Growth." This early paper argued that steady state equilibrium growth may not be feasible in an overlapping generations model if wages had to be paid in advance. Several influential papers analyzing macroeconomic policies assume that the “capital argument of the production function is the saving of the previous period”, but they ignore this lag in determining the price of capital, leading to underpricing of capital. The non-existence of steady state equilibrium would imply the recurrence of business cycles, of financial crisis every now and then.

 

 

 

 

 Updated 6/14/2009