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Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries: Keynes, Kalecki and the Rentier

In: Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy

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  • Yilmaz Akyüz

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Interest rate deregulation has become the favourite target of orthodox economists and financial liberalization has become all the rage. Adjustment programmes undertaken in collaboration with the IMF and the World Bank now typically include reforms in the financial system designed to increase the role of markets in determining interest rates and in allocating finance and savings. Underlying this shift in thinking is the hypothesis, initially formulated by McKinnon (1973) and Shaw (1973), that higher real interest rates on domestic financial assets increase the willingness to save income and hence reduce the savings constraint on capital accumulation, and encourage savings to be shifted to financial assets, thereby increasing the availability of investment finance. It is thus argued that the increase in the ratio of financial assets to income (i.e. financial deepening) will be associated with greater savings and faster growth.

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  • Yilmaz Akyüz, 1995. "Financial Liberalization in Developing Countries: Keynes, Kalecki and the Rentier," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gerry Helleiner & Shahen Abrahamian & Edmar Bacha & Roger Lawrence & Pedro Malan (ed.), Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy, chapter 7, pages 149-166, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13658-2_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13658-2_7
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    Cited by:

    1. John Serieux, 2008. "Financial Liberalization and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Africa: an Assessment," Working Papers 45, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.
    2. Berry, R. Albert, 2001. "Policy response to poverty and inequality in the developing world: where should the priorities lie?," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 33125, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).

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