The Role of DFIs in Industrial Growth and Transformation: Why the East Asian Countries Succeeded and Pakistan Did Not

Shakil Faruqi ()
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Shakil Faruqi: Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Lahore School of Economics

Lahore Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 20, issue Special Edition, 13-30

Abstract: In this paper we explore how development finance institutions (DFIs) helped to promote industrial growth with active role of public sector in emerging market economies – Korea, China, India, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey. The DFIs provided long-term credit financing which led to structural transformation of their economies. These countries have succeeded in spectacular fashion at this transformation over the past four decades but Pakistan did not; why? There has been an endless debate concerning the role of the public sector vis-à-vis the private sector in promoting economic growth and it continues in the present. I begin by asserting that historically public sector has been in the forefront in starting and sustaining economic growth. This not a leap of faith, rather this has been the experience of most emerging economies. They have gone through reforms, liberalization and structural adjustment, ushering in market-based policy regime and opening up foreign trade and capital flows. Within this framework, the role of DFIs has been exemplary, an assessment I reach based on published researched evidence but from field experience in the East Asian economies during 1980s, where newly established industries, in part supported by World Bank (WB) funded DFI lending, nurtured industrial transformation. When the industries of advanced countries began leaving in droves, pressure mounted to end industrial financing.

Keywords: Industrial growth; development finance institutions; economic development; Pakistan. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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