Private Bank Lending to Developing Countries

1989 ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Bird
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Private Bank

scholarly journals Foreign Lending Dilemma and Poverty in Pakistan, India and Bhutan: A Panel Data Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Mariam Abbas Soharwardi ◽  
Hina Ali ◽  
Mujahid Ali
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Structural Adjustment Programs ◽  
Foreign Lending ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Adjustment Programs

Purpose: In developing countries foreign lending becomes a problem now a day instead of spend this lending for the development purposes. Ultimately this problem causes poverty in these countries where usage of foreign lending is not in proper ways. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of IMF and World Bank lending on poverty in Pakistan, India and Bhutan. In this study corruption, GDP, unemployment, secondary enrolment, and external debt are used as independent variables and poverty headcount ratio as dependent variable. Study finds out the relationship of corruption, unemployment and external debts with poverty and showing the positive relationship while secondary enrolment and GDP showing negative relation with poverty. Moreover study finds out that lending of IMF and WORLD BANK mostly causes poverty in these developing countries instead of reducing poverty because of corrupt government's weak policies for the distribution of loans. It is examined that the countries with strong policies and non-corrupt government can take full advantage of these lending for poverty reduction. But it is noticed that the countries which are the members of IMF structural adjustment programs are facing more poverty problems as compare to those countries which are not involved in these programs or even have less numbers of lending. Those countries are much better than the countries involve in structural adjustment programs.

How do International Financial Flows to Developing Countries Respond to Natural Disasters?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1850243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio C. David
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Private Capital Flows ◽  
Dynamic Panel Analysis

This paper uses multivariate dynamic panel analysis to examine the response of international financial flows to natural disasters. The models estimated for a large sample of developing countries point to differentiated responses of specific types of financial flows. The results show that remittance inflows increase significantly in response to shocks to both climatic and geological disasters, thus confirming their compensatory nature. The models suggest a nuanced role for foreign aid. While the responses of aid flows to natural disaster shocks in general tend not to be statistically significant, international assistance to low income countries increases following geological disaster shocks. Furthermore, the results show that typically, other private capital flows (bank lending and equity) do not attenuate the effects of disasters and in some specifications, even amplify the negative economic effects of these events.

scholarly journals International Commodity Prices and Domestic Bank Lending in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (279) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isha Agrawal ◽  
Rupa Duttagupta ◽  
Andrea Presbitero ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
International Commodity

Private Bank Lending and Developing-Country Debt

1985 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
David Johnson ◽  
Pierre Sauve
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Private Bank

scholarly journals Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World

2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID ANDREW SINGER
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Exchange Rate Regimes ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
International Risk Sharing ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Migrant Remittances

This article argues that the international financial consequences of immigration exert a substantial influence on the choice of exchange rate regimes in the developing world. Over the past two decades, migrant remittances have emerged as a significant source of external finance for developing countries, often exceeding conventional sources of capital such as foreign direct investment and bank lending. Remittances are unlike nearly all other capital flows in that they are stable and move countercyclically relative to the recipient country's economy. As a result, they mitigate the costs of forgone domestic monetary policy autonomy and also serve as an international risk-sharing mechanism for developing countries. The observable implication of these arguments is that remittances increase the likelihood that policy makers adopt fixed exchange rates. An analysis of data onde factoexchange rate regimes and a newly available data set on remittances for up to 74 developing countries from 1982 to 2006 provides strong support for these arguments. The results are robust to instrumental variable analysis and the inclusion of multiple economic and political variables.

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