Capital Without Borders
Challenges to Development
Published on 1. April 2010
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-84331-838-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines a plethora of issues related to international capital flows, including the inevitable crisis that arises from the absorption of large volumes of capital inflow; the vast difference between foreign portfolio investment and foreign direct investment (FDI) from the point-of-view of the recipient country; the impact of different regulatory mechanisms; and various policy options for developing countries in the face of fluid international capital movements.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
65+ figures and tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84331-838-5 (9781843318385)
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Ashwini Deshpande is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. She holds a PhD and an MA in Economics, and was awarded the Exim bank award for an outstanding dissertation in 1995. She is also the 2007 recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize in Economics, awarded to economists below the age of 45 for their outstanding contribution to the field.
Content
Introduction; How Financial Liberalisation Led in the 1990s to Three Different Cycles of 'Manias, Panic and Crashes' in Middle Income Countries; Timing the Mexican 1994-95 Financial Crisis Using a Markov Switching Approach; Exchange Rate, Inflation and Growth; Alternative Measures of Currency Substitution in Turkey; Competitive Diversification in Resource Abundant Countrie; Foreign Portfolio Investment in India; Transnational Corporations and the Internationalisation of Research and Development Activities in Developing Countries; External Debt Nationalization a Major Tendency on Brazilian External Debt in the Twentieth Century; Prudential Regulations and Safety Nets; Understanding New Threats to Development in Comparative Regional Perspectives