Unveiling the Possibilities to Minimize the External Debt Burden Through Remittances in Top Remittance's Recipient Countries: A Quantile Regression Approach

IF 0.9 4区 经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS
Gilal Ashfaque Ali, Liu Hong, Niaz Hussain Ghumro
{"title":"Unveiling the Possibilities to Minimize the External Debt Burden Through Remittances in Top Remittance's Recipient Countries: A Quantile Regression Approach","authors":"Gilal Ashfaque Ali,&nbsp;Liu Hong,&nbsp;Niaz Hussain Ghumro","doi":"10.1111/ajes.12619","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>Despite considerable inflows from worker remittances, foreign direct investment (FDI), and foreign grants, many top remittance-receiving countries continue to grapple with a growing external debt burden, posing a critical issue for policymakers and researchers. This study seeks to explore strategies to reduce external debt by investigating factors that either contribute to or mitigate foreign borrowing. Using panel data from 1991 to 2022, drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI), the study applies Westerlund, Pedroni, and Kao co-integration tests alongside Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) to address econometric challenges like serial correlation, autocorrelation, endogeneity, and unit roots. To ensure robustness, the study validates findings through Canonical Correlation Analysis and quantile regression, reinforcing the FMOLS and DOLS results. The analysis indicates that worker remittances, FDI, and economic growth significantly alleviate the external debt burden, while factors like debt servicing, gross capital formation, and imports exacerbate it, leading to increased borrowing. Based on these findings, the study recommends that governments enhance economic growth by channeling remittances through formal means and investing them in high-return, productive sectors. Additionally, controlling debt servicing and imports is suggested to better manage external debt.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":47133,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Economics and Sociology","volume":"84 3","pages":"535-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Journal of Economics and Sociology","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12619","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

Despite considerable inflows from worker remittances, foreign direct investment (FDI), and foreign grants, many top remittance-receiving countries continue to grapple with a growing external debt burden, posing a critical issue for policymakers and researchers. This study seeks to explore strategies to reduce external debt by investigating factors that either contribute to or mitigate foreign borrowing. Using panel data from 1991 to 2022, drawn from the World Development Indicators (WDI), the study applies Westerlund, Pedroni, and Kao co-integration tests alongside Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) to address econometric challenges like serial correlation, autocorrelation, endogeneity, and unit roots. To ensure robustness, the study validates findings through Canonical Correlation Analysis and quantile regression, reinforcing the FMOLS and DOLS results. The analysis indicates that worker remittances, FDI, and economic growth significantly alleviate the external debt burden, while factors like debt servicing, gross capital formation, and imports exacerbate it, leading to increased borrowing. Based on these findings, the study recommends that governments enhance economic growth by channeling remittances through formal means and investing them in high-return, productive sectors. Additionally, controlling debt servicing and imports is suggested to better manage external debt.

揭示通过汇款最多的受援国汇款来减少外债负担的可能性:分位数回归方法
尽管大量资金来自工人汇款、外国直接投资(FDI)和外国赠款,但许多最大的汇款接收国仍在努力应对不断增长的外债负担,这对政策制定者和研究人员构成了一个关键问题。本研究旨在通过调查促进或减轻外债的因素,探讨减少外债的战略。利用1991年至2022年世界发展指标(WDI)的面板数据,采用Westerlund、Pedroni和Kao协整检验以及完全修正OLS (FMOLS)和动态OLS (DOLS)来解决序列相关、自相关、内生性和单位根等计量经济学挑战。为了确保稳健性,本研究通过典型相关分析和分位数回归验证了研究结果,强化了FMOLS和DOLS结果。分析表明,工人汇款、外国直接投资和经济增长显著减轻了外债负担,而偿债、资本形成总额和进口等因素加剧了外债负担,导致借款增加。根据这些发现,该研究建议各国政府通过正式渠道引导汇款,并将其投资于高回报的生产性部门,从而促进经济增长。此外,建议控制偿债和进口以更好地管理外债。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
CiteScore
1.90
自引率
12.50%
发文量
39
期刊介绍: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信