Debt or Alive
Burundi's Fiscal Response to Economic Sanctions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7301978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roel Dom (0000-0002-7787-836X, World Bank), Lionel Rogers (0000-0002-3671-0544, University of Nottingham), Lionel Roger (University of Nottingham) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 369-379 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isq/sqaa007 |
| OpenAlex | W3008127242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 56 |
Economic sanctions, and the suspension of budget support in particular, are supposed to pressure target governments into complying with sanction demands by putting spending commitments at risk. In this article we argue that this is too simplistic since governments have more fiscal levers at their disposal. The case of Burundi illustrates this argument. Following Burundi's 2015 political crisis, donors imposed economic sanctions on the country and suspended all budget support to the national government. Using monthly data on the government's fiscal position between 2005 and 2017, we present evidence from a time series analysis showing that aid does not affect spending and that aid shortfalls are instead systematically compensated with domestic borrowing. It appears that the Burundian government has been able to withstand the sanctions and to fulfil its spending commitments by substituting domestic debt for aid. Thus, the economic costs of sanctions do not necessarily translate directly into political costs but are mitigated by the government's fiscal response
Argument (complex analysis · Debt · Economic policy · Economic sanctions · Economics · Fiscal policy · Government (linguistics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Sanctions · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Finance · International Development and Aid · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |