Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?

Many small- and medium-sized emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. This is mainly due to a market failure resulting from informational asymmetries on th...

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Main Author: Alavi, Hamid
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/8340362/access-preshipment-export-finance-guarantees-help
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spelling okr-10986-111662021-04-23T14:02:54Z Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help? Alavi, Hamid ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ADVISORY SERVICE APPLICATION PROCESS ASSETS BANK LOANS BENEFICIARIES BORROWER BUSINESS PLAN BUYER BUYERS CASE OF DEFAULT COLLATERAL COMMERCIAL BANKS COUNTRY RISK CREDIBILITY CREDIT ENHANCEMENT CREDIT RISKS DEFAULT RISKS DEFAULTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT EXPORT FINANCING EXPORTER EXPORTERS FINANCIAL BURDEN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL POSITION FINANCING CONSTRAINTS FUND PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE FEE GUARANTEE SCHEMES GUARANTY INFORMATIONAL ASYMMETRIES INSTRUMENT INSURANCE INSURANCE AGENCIES INSURANCE AGENCY LETTER OF CREDIT LIABILITY LINES OF CREDIT LOAN LOAN DEFAULT LOAN DEFAULTS MARKET FAILURE MARKETING MARKETING CAMPAIGN MATURITIES MIDDLE EAST MORAL HAZARD NET WORTH NONPAYMENT NONPERFORMANCE NORTH AFRICA OPPORTUNITY COST OUTREACH OVERDRAFT OVERDRAFT FACILITIES POLITICAL RISK PRESENT VALUE RETURN RISK OF LOAN SELF-FINANCE SENIOR TERM CREDIT THIRD PARTY RISK TRANSACTION TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSPORT WEB SITE WORKING CAPITAL Many small- and medium-sized emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. This is mainly due to a market failure resulting from informational asymmetries on the part of banks about exporters' ability to execute export orders according to buyers' standards of quality, cost, and delivery. Several countries have established pre-shipment export finance guaranty facilities to help alleviate this market failure. Their aim is to act as catalyst to temporarily share nonperformance risks of exporters with the banks, allowing the banks to evaluate nonperformance risks of emerging exporters. Some countries have implemented these facilities successfully encouraging banks to provide pre-shipment finance without guarantees, while others have not. This note draws on Tunisia's experience to outline the necessary conditions for the success of these facilities. 2012-08-13T14:20:04Z 2012-08-13T14:20:04Z 2007-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/8340362/access-preshipment-export-finance-guarantees-help http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11166 English PREM Notes; No. 113 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa Tunisia
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topic ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
ADVISORY SERVICE
APPLICATION PROCESS
ASSETS
BANK LOANS
BENEFICIARIES
BORROWER
BUSINESS PLAN
BUYER
BUYERS
CASE OF DEFAULT
COLLATERAL
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COUNTRY RISK
CREDIBILITY
CREDIT ENHANCEMENT
CREDIT RISKS
DEFAULT RISKS
DEFAULTS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
EXPORT FINANCING
EXPORTER
EXPORTERS
FINANCIAL BURDEN
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL POSITION
FINANCING CONSTRAINTS
FUND PERFORMANCE
GUARANTEE FEE
GUARANTEE SCHEMES
GUARANTY
INFORMATIONAL ASYMMETRIES
INSTRUMENT
INSURANCE
INSURANCE AGENCIES
INSURANCE AGENCY
LETTER OF CREDIT
LIABILITY
LINES OF CREDIT
LOAN
LOAN DEFAULT
LOAN DEFAULTS
MARKET FAILURE
MARKETING
MARKETING CAMPAIGN
MATURITIES
MIDDLE EAST
MORAL HAZARD
NET WORTH
NONPAYMENT
NONPERFORMANCE
NORTH AFRICA
OPPORTUNITY COST
OUTREACH
OVERDRAFT
OVERDRAFT FACILITIES
POLITICAL RISK
PRESENT VALUE
RETURN
RISK OF LOAN
SELF-FINANCE
SENIOR
TERM CREDIT
THIRD PARTY RISK
TRANSACTION
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSPORT
WEB SITE
WORKING CAPITAL
spellingShingle ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
ADVISORY SERVICE
APPLICATION PROCESS
ASSETS
BANK LOANS
BENEFICIARIES
BORROWER
BUSINESS PLAN
BUYER
BUYERS
CASE OF DEFAULT
COLLATERAL
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COUNTRY RISK
CREDIBILITY
CREDIT ENHANCEMENT
CREDIT RISKS
DEFAULT RISKS
DEFAULTS
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
EXPORT FINANCING
EXPORTER
EXPORTERS
FINANCIAL BURDEN
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL POSITION
FINANCING CONSTRAINTS
FUND PERFORMANCE
GUARANTEE FEE
GUARANTEE SCHEMES
GUARANTY
INFORMATIONAL ASYMMETRIES
INSTRUMENT
INSURANCE
INSURANCE AGENCIES
INSURANCE AGENCY
LETTER OF CREDIT
LIABILITY
LINES OF CREDIT
LOAN
LOAN DEFAULT
LOAN DEFAULTS
MARKET FAILURE
MARKETING
MARKETING CAMPAIGN
MATURITIES
MIDDLE EAST
MORAL HAZARD
NET WORTH
NONPAYMENT
NONPERFORMANCE
NORTH AFRICA
OPPORTUNITY COST
OUTREACH
OVERDRAFT
OVERDRAFT FACILITIES
POLITICAL RISK
PRESENT VALUE
RETURN
RISK OF LOAN
SELF-FINANCE
SENIOR
TERM CREDIT
THIRD PARTY RISK
TRANSACTION
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSPORT
WEB SITE
WORKING CAPITAL
Alavi, Hamid
Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
geographic_facet Middle East and North Africa
Tunisia
relation PREM Notes; No. 113
description Many small- and medium-sized emerging exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to short-term working capital to finance their export transactions. This is mainly due to a market failure resulting from informational asymmetries on the part of banks about exporters' ability to execute export orders according to buyers' standards of quality, cost, and delivery. Several countries have established pre-shipment export finance guaranty facilities to help alleviate this market failure. Their aim is to act as catalyst to temporarily share nonperformance risks of exporters with the banks, allowing the banks to evaluate nonperformance risks of emerging exporters. Some countries have implemented these facilities successfully encouraging banks to provide pre-shipment finance without guarantees, while others have not. This note draws on Tunisia's experience to outline the necessary conditions for the success of these facilities.
format Publications & Research :: Brief
author Alavi, Hamid
author_facet Alavi, Hamid
author_sort Alavi, Hamid
title Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
title_short Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
title_full Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
title_fullStr Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
title_full_unstemmed Access to Preshipment Export Finance : Do Guarantees Help?
title_sort access to preshipment export finance : do guarantees help?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/8340362/access-preshipment-export-finance-guarantees-help
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11166
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