World Bank trade loans and export performance of recipient countries

Mariarosaria Agostino and Francesco Trivieri

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2014, vol. 17, issue 2, 99-128

Abstract: Since 1980 several developing countries have received World Bank structural loans, aimed at opening their economy to international trade. By estimating a gravity equation on a panel of 180 countries, observed from 1962 to 2010, we investigate whether the Bank’s programs have affected the export performance of beneficiaries in the subsequent years. According to our results, trade loans have been ineffective in the shorter run while, in the longer, they appear to have hindered the export performance of recipient countries. The Bank’s new trade policy approach, however, seems to have some potential for inverting the negative influence that we have detected.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2014.894912

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