Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200828 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] KDI Journal of Economic Policy [ISSN:] 2586-4130 [Volume:] 40 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Korea Development Institute (KDI) [Place:] Sejong [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 91-115
Publisher: 
Korea Development Institute (KDI), Sejong
Abstract: 
This paper aims to identify the most effective mode of development finance flows for the economic growth of middle-income developing and least developed countries, separately. It also attempts to confirm whether governance has any significant role in the causal relationship between development finance flows and economic growth. Policymakers in each developing country should select the most effective modality of development finance inflows among the different modalities (such as Official Development Assistance (ODA) grants, Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans, FDI, and international personal remittances) and expand it for their economic growth. Dynamic panel regression models were used on 48 least developed countries and 89 middle-income developing countries, respectively, during the Millennium Development Era: 2000-2015. The empirical analysis results show that ODA grants and remittances were most effective in promoting economic growth for least developed countries, while FDI was most effective for middle-income developing countries. These findings were not affected by the status of governance of the individual country.
Subjects: 
ODA Grants
ODA Loans
FDI
Remittances
Economic Growth
Least Developed Countries
Effectiveness
Middle-income Developing Countries
JEL: 
C36
F24
G15
O11
P45
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Document Type: 
Article

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