Download or read book Simple Analytics written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1988-03-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is concerned with debt-equity swaps in which foreign residents are a party to the exchange (i.e., it does not deal with flight capital), and with debt forgiveness. The seemingly unrelated issues of debt-equity swaps and debt forgiveness are jointly treated in this study, because debt forgiveness is in fact a special case of debt-equity swaps. Namely, it is a swap in which a positive amount of debt is exchanged for zero equity. For this reason these two problems have many common features.