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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Foreign Debt and Economic Growth: The Role of Institutional Quality and Financial Development in Asian Developing Countries

   Dawood, Feng, Li, Tunio, Mutai and Li · Economics of Transition and Institutional Change · 2025

   A study of 32 developing Asian countries from 1997 to 2022 finds foreign debt lowers growth on average, but strong institutions and developed finance reduce this and set context-dependent thresholds.

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   1. UncheckedIn 32 developing Asian countries, foreign debt had a baseline negative effect on economic growth, in line with the debt overhang hypothesis.“Results reveal that foreign debt exerts a baseline adverse effect on economic growth, consistent with the debt overhang hypothesis.”
   2. UncheckedIn 32 developing Asian countries, foreign debt is estimated to help growth above an institutional quality score of 0.93 and financial development of 38.35% of GDP.“For the full sample, institutional quality and financial development thresholds are 0.93 (on a −2.5 to +2.5 scale) and 38.35% (on a 0 to 100 scale) of GDP, respectively.”
   3. Unchecked“Disaggregated analyses show that lower‐middle‐income countries (LMICs) benefit at thresholds of 0.91 (IQ) and 37.33% (FD), whereas upper‐middle‐income countries (UMICs) require stricter thresholds of 0.85 (IQ) and 55.94% (FD) to leverage debt for innovation‐…