World Bank Trade Adjustment Loans and Export Policy Distortions

Mariarosaria Agostino

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2007, vol. 10, issue 2, 143-162

Abstract: This work investigates whether World Bank loans fostering trade liberalization are associated with less distorted export policies, by employing some gravity model‐based measures of anti‐export bias, and a Herfindhal index of export revenues concentration. When accounting for non‐random selection in a sample of 88 developing countries over the period 1980‐2000, the receipt of trade adjustment loans seems to have reduced the policy distortion under scrutiny. Such a beneficial influence, however, vanishes when a longer time horizon is considered, casting doubts on the country ownership of waves of liberalizations supported by the Bank.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/17487870701358873

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