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Institutional Arrangements to Ensure Willingness to Repay in Financial Markets: A Case Study of Paraguay

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  • Stéphane Straub
  • Horacio Sosa

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The paper examines the consequences of the deficiencies in the legal protection of creditors` rights and the low efficiency of judicial enforcement on the functioning of credit markets in Paraguay, as well as the solutions developed to compensate for the informality and enforcement flaws of financial contracts.

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  • Stéphane Straub & Horacio Sosa, 1999. "Institutional Arrangements to Ensure Willingness to Repay in Financial Markets: A Case Study of Paraguay," Research Department Publications 3062, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.
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