Capital Without Borders

Challenges to Development

Edited by Ashwini Deshpande

Publication date:

01 April 2010

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843318385

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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.

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