Determinants of Development Financing Flows From Brazil, Russia, India, and China to Low-Income Countries
November 1, 2011
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Summary
BRICs development financing flows have increased significantly and are expected to become more prominent in the post-crisis era. We investigate the potential implications on the country-allocation of loan commitments and the degree of concessionality using a panel vector autoregression model and single equation dynamic panel estimation.We find that BRICs lend more to LICs with weaker institutions. Land-locked, resource-scarce LICs receive significantly less financing than other resource-rich LICs. The degree of concessionality is negatively correlated with the amount of loans and positively correlated with better institutional indicators suggesting that the higher the risks, the higher the required returns that BRICs expect.
Subject: Concessional external borrowing, Development assistance, Exports, External debt, Financial institutions, Foreign aid, International trade, Loans, National accounts, Personal income
Keywords: Africa, Aid, Asia and Pacific, BRIC development financing data, BRIC financing, BRIC loan financing, BRICs, Caribbean, Concessional external borrowing, Concessionality, Development assistance, development financing data, Exports, financing, loan commitment, Loans, Low-Income Countries, Middle East and Central Asia, OECD ODA commitment data, Pacific Islands, Panel OLS, Panel VAR, Personal income, WP
Pages:
24
Volume:
2011
DOI:
Issue:
255
Series:
Working Paper No. 2011/255
Stock No:
WPIEA2011255
ISBN:
9781463923914
ISSN:
1018-5941
