Financial Development: A Broader Perspective

Richard Reid
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Richard Reid: Asian Development Bank Institute

No 258, ADBI Working Papers from Asian Development Bank Institute

Abstract: This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve: how and why financial structures change during various stages of development, how best to measure them, and seeing what practical policy lessons can be drawn from historical experience. Some financial structures may be better suited to growth at certain stages of development but they may be less well suited in other circumstances. In the search for optimal financial structure, rather than attempt to adopt another country’s particular structure it may be more fruitful for today’s emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks involved in transitioning from one framework to another. Too fast a change increases the danger that all the necessary regulatory, supervisory and educational changes may not keep pace with the financial changes. This can increase the susceptibility to instability and reduce resilience to shocks.

Keywords: financial system development; history; measurement; policies; lessons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 F00 F01 F02 G00 G01 G15 G18 G20 G38 N00 N01 N20 N30 N40 O10 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2010-12-16
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