Trade Openness and Diversification of External Financial Flows for Development: An Empirical Analysis
Sèna Kimm Gnangnon
South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, 2020, vol. 9, issue 1, 22-57
Abstract:
The implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 by the international community in the Agenda 2030 requires a substantial mobilization of financial resources. In the meantime, Goal 17 of this Agenda recognizes trade as an important means of the implementation of the SDGs. The current article investigates empirically the impact of openness to international trade on the diversification of external financial flows for development, which could help developing countries achieve the SDGs by 2030. To that end, three major external flows for development have been considered: development aid inflows, migrants’ remittances inflows and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. The analysis relies on a panel data set comprising 116 countries, over the period 1970–2017. The empirical analysis relies primarily on the two-step system generalized method of moments (GMM) approach and shows that greater trade openness exerts a positive and significant impact on the diversification of external financial flows for development, in particular, in the least developed countries (LDCs). As a result, greater openness to international trade could be an important tool for external capital flows diversification in developing countries. JEL Classification: F13, F14, F21, F24, F35, O20
Keywords: Diversification of external financial flows for development; development aid; remittances; foreign direct investment; trade openness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/2277978719898974
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