scholarly journals EXTERNAL DEBT, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Siti Nurazira Mohd Daud
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Debt Overhang ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

This paper addresses the gap in the literature by investigating the role of the institutional quality in the nexus of external debt and economic growth. By employing a dynamic panel data analysis, we found that the institutional quality plays some role in complementing the effect of external debt on a country’s economic growth. We also found that the negative effect of external debt and a country’s economic growth monotonically increases with the level of institutional indicator, which implies the possibility of debt overhang may still happen in economies endowed with good institutions, but for higher values of debt.

scholarly journals REVISITING THE ROLE OF EXTERNAL DEBT IN ECONOMIC GROWTH OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 968-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Nurazira Mohd Daud ◽  
Jan M. Podivinsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
External Debt ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Debt Overhang ◽  
Positive Spillover ◽  
Panel Data Econometrics

This paper proposes a study on the contribution of external debt to the expansion of economic growth for 31 developing countries. Over a period of 36 years, by using dynamic panel data econometrics estimation GMM-system, the results reveal that the accumulation of external debt is associated with a slowdown in the economies of the developing countries. In addition, this paper finds evidence that debt service ratio does not crowd out the investment rate in developing countries. In other words, even though external debt is negatively associated with economic growth, countries are found to be safe from being in the debt overhang hypothesis. Furthermore, there is evidence to support the existence of spatial dependence in the growth model, suggesting the existence of a positive spillover effect of growth among the neighbouring countries.

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