Firms in low- and middle-income countries persistently pay more to borrow than firms in high-income economies. Drawing on a new World Bank Group study of more than 330,000 bond issues, this column shows how stronger sovereign benchmarks, deeper domestic institutional investor bases, and carefully sequenced financial liberalisation can broaden market access and lower borrowing costs for firms in these countries.
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