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Low-Income Countries' BRIC Linkage: Are there Growth Spillovers?
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Issouf Samaké
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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2011: Issue 267
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Nov 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463924669.001
ISBN:
9781463924669
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
35
Keywords:
WP; low-income country; BRIC; Given BRICs; demand; Spillovers; low-income countries; BRICs; Global VAR; Structural VAR; LIC growth; region VAR; exchange rate; help LICs; LIC export; growth response; LIC trade; LIC output; LIC policymaker; BRICs to LICs; trade shock; LIC economy; Commodity prices; Vector autoregression; Oil prices; Foreign direct investment; Global; Africa; Asia and Pacific; Middle East; Eastern Europe
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Trade and financial ties between low-income countries (LICs) and Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) have expanded rapidly in recent years. This gives rise to the potential for growth to spill over from the latter to the former. We employ a global vector autoregression (GVAR) model to investigate the extent of business cycle transmission from BRICs to LICs through both direct (FDI, trade, productivity, exchange rates) and indirect (global commodity prices, demand, and interest rates) channels. The estimation results show that there are significant direct spillovers while indirect spillovers also matters in many cases. Based on these results, we show that growing LIC-BRIC ties have significantly helped alleviate the adverse impact of the recent global financial crisis on LIC economies.
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