scholarly journals Financial liberalization, financial development and economic growth in LDCs

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Barnebeck Andersen ◽  
Finn Tarp
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Lillian Kamal

Many studies have examined the relationship between economic growth and finance. A continuing question is the choice of a clear proxy for financial development. This paper attempts to elucidate this issue from a developing country perspective, while controlling for financial repression. The proxy of choice is the ratio of currency outside the banking system to real output (CB). This proxy is unique in that it is related to the degree of financial repression, and thus relates differently to economic growth depending on the level of financial development. The statistics support the hypothesis of a U-shaped behavior of CB with financial liberalization. The empirical results show that CB relates negatively to growth in countries that are less financially liberalized and positively with growth in countries that are more financially liberalized. The literature has used real interest rates as a measure of financial repression. An innovative measure of financial repression is then proposed that combines the use of currency inside banks and currency outside banks, and is tested concurrently with a broad money depth measure. The study is carried out using a panel approach, and the sample is also divided into different geographical regions, in order to see whether the relationship differs between geographical regions. The study concludes that there is overwhelming evidence that financial repression, which is indicative of financial under-development, is negatively related to growth.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO SANTANA

This paper examines the effects of banking crises and financial liberalization on the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 16 Latin American countries over the period 1973-2005. Applying the dynamic panel method that incorporates Generalized Method of Moments system, the main findings show that financial liberalization did not result in a positive relationship between financial development and economic growth due to the emergence and recurrence of banking crises. Our findings also confirm those of theoretical approaches that suggest financial liberalization can generate banking crises, while bringing into question approaches that support a positive relationship between financial development and economic growth.


2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Nasim Shah Shirazi ◽  
Sajid Amin Javed ◽  
Dawood Ashraf

This paper investigates the impact of remittance inflows on economic growth and poverty reduction for seven African countries using annual data from 1992-2010. By using the depth of hunger as a proxy for poverty in a Simultaneous Equation Model (SEM), we find that remittances have statistically significant growth enhancing and poverty reducing impact. Drawing on our estimates, we conclude that financial development level significantly increases the remittances inflows and strengthens poverty alleviating impact of remittances. Results of our study further show a signficant interactive imapct of remittances and finacial develpment on economic growth, suggesting the substitutability between remittance inflows and financial development. We further find that 3 percentage point increase in credit provision to the private sector (financial development) can help eliminate the severe depth of hunger in the region. Remittances, serving an alternative source of private credit, can be effective in this regard. Keywords: Remittance Inflow, Poverty Alleviation, Financial Development, Simultaneous Equation Model


The demand for energy consumption requires efficient financial development in terms of bank credit. Therefore, this study examines the nexus between Financial Development, Economic Growth, Energy Prices and Energy Consumption in India, utilizing Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) technique to determine the nature of short and long term relationships from 2010 to 2019. The estimation of results indicates that a one percent increase in bank credits to private sector results in 0.10 percent increase in energy consumption and 0.28 percent increase in energy consumption responses to 1 percent increase in economic growth. It is also observed that the impact of energy price proxied by consumer price index is statistically significant with a negative sign indicating the consistency with the theory.


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