Spillovers to Low-Income Countries: Importance of Systemic Emerging Markets

By Era Dabla-Norris, Raphael A Espinoza, Sarwat Jahan

February 1, 2012

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Era Dabla-Norris, Raphael A Espinoza, and Sarwat Jahan. Spillovers to Low-Income Countries: Importance of Systemic Emerging Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper documents the expanding economic linkages between low-income countries (LICs) and a narrow group of "Emerging Market leaders" that have become major players in regional and global trade and financial flows. VAR models show that these linkages have increased the share of growth volatility that can be attributed to foreign shocks in LICs. Dynamic panel models further analyze the impact of LIC trade orientation and production structure on the sensitivity to foreign shocks. The empirical results demonstrate that the elasticity of growth to trading partners' growth is high for LICs in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe and Central Asia. However, for commodity-exporting LICs in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, terms of trade shocks and demand from the emerging market leaders are the main channels of transmission of foreign shocks.

Subject: Balance of payments, Commodity price fluctuations, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Exports, Financial markets, Financial sector policy and analysis, Foreign direct investment, International trade, Prices, Spillovers

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Commodity exporter, Commodity price fluctuations, Decoupling, Economic Integration, EM leader, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Exports, Foreign direct investment, Global, Growth Spillovers, LIC growth prospect, LICS in Asia, LICS in SSA, Low-Income Countries, MNA region, Panel Estimate, Spillovers, Vector Autoregression, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

27
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Working Paper No. 2012/049
Stock No:

WPIEA2012049
ISBN:

9781463937102
ISSN:

1018-5941

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