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Foreign Direct Investment versus other Flows to Latin America
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ISBN: 1280030917 9786610030910 9264192522 926418645X Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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The central question tackled here is that of the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as bank lending. There has been an undoubted rise in FDI flows as a proportion of all flows to the Latin American region, but how much of the cause is supply- or demand-driven remains unclear. Analyses presented in this volume appear to demonstrate that FDI is no better and no worse than other flows for growth and for crisis resistance and, in some cases, may even be a signal of an economy’s ill health. Contrary views, however, are also presented. Where governments compete for FDI, it is widely believed that they participate in a so-called "race to the bottom", lowering labour, environmental and other standards. The surprise here is that this fear is so far largely unfounded. The book also includes a glimpse of a round table discussion on these issues with private-sector participants. The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. The eleventh edition of the Forum was held in Paris in November 2000 and this book contains contributions and analysis from that meeting.

World capital markets: challenge to the G-10
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ISBN: 0881323012 9780881323016 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Institute for International Economics

The wind of the hundred days : wow Washington mismanaged globalization
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ISBN: 0262268515 0585377782 9780262268516 9780262024952 9780585377780 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press,

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Provocative essays on international trade, with particular focus on U.S. foreign trade policy. In The Wind of the Hundred Days , a new collection of public policy essays, Jagdish Bhagwati applies his characteristic wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the administration's mismanagement of globalization -- resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined with dramatic failure on the external front. Bhagwati assigns the bulk of the blame for the East Asian financial and economic crisis -- a disaster that prompts him to use as his title the poet Octavio Paz's image of devastation "I met the wind of the hundred days" -- to the administration's hasty push for financial liberalization in the region. The administration, Bhagwati claims, has also mishandled the freeing of trade. The administration-hosted WTO meeting in Seattle ended in chaos and the launch of a new round of multilateral trade negotiations was dashed. Bhagwati shows how the administration's failure to get Congress to renew fast-track authority can be attributed to an unimaginative response to the demands of a growing civil society. In several essays, he shows how free trade and social agendas both could have been pursued successfully if the concerns of human-rights, environmental, cultural, and labor activists had been met through creative programs at appropriate international agencies such as the International Labour Organization instead of the WTO and via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that "globalization needs a human face," arguing that it already has one. He faults the administration for embracing unsubstantiated anti-globalization rhetoric that has made its own preferred option of pursuing globalization that much more difficult.

Evolving financial markets and international capital flows : Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865-1914
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ISBN: 0521553520 052116608X 0511116306 0511065655 0511059345 0511327706 051151087X 1280159901 1139145568 051106778X 1107112818 9780511065651 9780511116308 9780511510878 9780511067785 9781280159909 9780521553520 9781107112810 9781139145565 9780511059346 9780511327704 9780521166089 Year: 2001 Volume: *2 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 2001 study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in four countries - Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States - over the years 1870 to 1914. In substantive chapters on each country it offers parallel histories of the evolution of their financial infrastructures - commercial banks, non-bank intermediaries, primary security markets, formal secondary security markets, and the institutions that provide the international financial links connecting the frontier country with the British capital market. At one level, the work constitutes a quantitative history of the development of the capital markets of five countries in the late nineteenth century. At a second level, it provides the basis for a useable taxonomy for the study of institutional invention and innovation. At a third, it suggests some lessons from the past about modern policy issues.

Regional and global capital flows : macroeconomic causes and consequences
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ISBN: 0226386767 9786612004919 1282004913 0226387011 9780226387017 9780226386768 Year: 2001 Volume: 10 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The volume of capital flows between industrial and developing countries has grown dramatically in the past decade and has become a major issue in a world that is increasingly "globalized." Here Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, two leading experts on this topic, have assembled a group of scholars who address different types of capital flows-bank lending, bonds, direct foreign investment-and the implications they hold for economic performance. With its particular focus on the Asian financial crises, this work presents a new model for policy makers everywhere in thinking about the role of private capital flows.

Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy.
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ISBN: 0262650592 0262150492 9786612099854 0262280868 128209985X 0585077746 9780262294300 0262294303 9780262280860 9780262650595 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : The MIT Press,

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Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.

Taxation in a global economy
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ISBN: 0521782767 0511153848 9780521782760 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Haufler's standard microeconomic analysis considers how international mobility of capital, firms and consumers affects tax policies in most OECD countries. Topics include capital flight, profit shifting in multinational firms, and cross-border shopping. Haufler addresses the issue of coordination in different areas of tax policy, particularly in the EU.

International finance and open-economy macroeconomics.
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ISBN: 3540417303 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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Balance of payments. --- Capital movements. --- Foreign exchange market. --- International economic relations. --- International finance. --- Macroeconomics. --- Monetary policy. --- AA / International- internationaal --- 333.450 --- 305.92 --- 382.240 --- 333.432.8 --- EMU --- betalingen, internationaal --- financiën, internationaal --- kapitaalmarkt, internationaal --- macro-economie --- mathematische modellen, toegepast op economie --- open economie --- wisselkoersen --- 332.042 --- Monetary policy --- International finance --- Foreign exchange market --- Balance of payments --- Capital movements --- International economic relations --- Macroeconomics --- Economics --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- Capital flight --- Capital flows --- Capital inflow --- Capital outflow --- Flight of capital --- Flow of capital --- Movements of capital --- Foreign exchange --- Current account balance (International trade) --- International payments, Balance of --- Terms of trade --- Balance of trade --- International liquidity --- Exchange market --- Foreign exchange markets --- FX market --- Markets --- International monetary system --- International money --- Finance --- Monetary management --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Theorie van het deviezenverkeer. Theorie van de koopkrachtpariteit. --- Econometrie van de internationale handel. Handelsbalans, betalingsbalans. Wissel. --- Evolutie van de betalingsbalans: algemeenheden. --- Internationale monetaire organisatie. Internationaal Muntfonds. Algemene leningovereenkomsten. --- Econometrie van de internationale handel. Handelsbalans, betalingsbalans. Wissel --- Internationale monetaire organisatie. Internationaal Muntfonds. Algemene leningovereenkomsten --- Theorie van het deviezenverkeer. Theorie van de koopkrachtpariteit --- Evolutie van de betalingsbalans: algemeenheden

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