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- Interest Rates, Credit Rationing, and Investment in Developing Countries
- This paper examines the impact of interest rates and inflation on bank loans and investment within a framework that mimics the financial sectors prevailing in most low-income developing countries. The paper emphasizes the importance of treating the lending and deposit rates of interest as distinct parameters in investment equations. The...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Exchange Rate Policy and Sovereign Bond Spreads in Developing Countries
- This report tests the hypothesis of a link between exchange rate policy and sovereign bonds. The main findings are: real exchange rate overvaluation significantly increases sovereign bond issue probability and raises bond spreads; spreads and the likelihood of issuing bonds depend on the exchange rate regime; exchange rate misalignment under...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Sovereign Borrowing by Developing Countries: What Determines Market Access?
- What determines the ability of governments from developing countries to access international credit markets? This article examines this question using detailed data on sovereign bond issuances and public syndicated bank loans since 1982. It finds that traditional measures of a country's links with the rest of the world (such as...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment Inflows To Developing Countries
- The article argues that democratic institutions have conflicting effects on FDI inflows. On the one hand, democratic institutions hinder FDI inflows. They tend to limit the oligopolistic or monopolistic behaviors of multinational enterprises, facilitate indigenous businesses' pursuit of protection from foreign capital, and constrain host governments' ability to offer generous...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Increasing Trade & Investment: Policies, Institutions, And Development Assistance
- Globalization offers an unprecedented opportunity for developing countries to achieve faster economic growth through trade and investment. However, these resource flows remain concentrated among relatively few, largely middle-income developing countries. Can low-income developing countries benefit from the global economy? This paper argues that through greater openness and sound governance--reforms that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Investment and Competition Policy in Developing Countries: Implications of and for the WTO
- This paper evaluates the impact on developing countries of the prohibition of Trade Related Investment Measures TRIMs. The economic impact of implementing the TRIMs Agreement in GATT 1994, and more generally of liberalizing investment measures, is likely to be negative and significant for developing countries. Overall, the impact is likely...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- Does Financial Liberalization Really Improve Private Investment In Developing Countries?
- The author, focusing on the demand for capital goods, argues that the positive effect on the domestic credit market may be offset by the negative effect of a portfolio shift from capital goods and public bonds into monetary assets. The author also demonstrates that a policy of financial liberalization could...
- White papers 1991-07-01
- External Capital Structure-Theory And Evidence
- Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity flows have been playing an increasing role. In this article, one discusses the challenges for international macroeconomics that these developments pose and characterize stylized facts associated with the structure of external...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Reversal Of Fortunes: Democracy, Property Rights And Foreign Direct Investment Inflows To Developing Countries
- The question this article addresses is does increased democracy promote or jeopardize Foreign Direct Investment FDI inflows to Less Developed Countries LDCs. It argues that democracy affects FDI inflows through competing causal avenues. On one hand, the higher levels of political participation and representation that are part of more democratic...
- White papers 2001-10-19
- Potential Applications of Structured Commodity Financing Techniques for Banks in Developing Countries
- This paper describes a number of financial techniques that can be used by developing country banks to open up new financing possibilities in the commodities sector. The first chapter discusses these various techniques, which can most easily be used in the commodity sector but which can also be adopted by...
- White papers 2001-08-29
- FDI In Landlocked Developing Countries At A Glance
- The paper begins by identifying the factors unique to landlocked countries that affect FDI Foreign Direct Investment inflows to them. It seeks to develop an understanding of both the nature of the barriers to FDI that remoteness from and lack of national access to seaports creates, and their magnitude. This...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Welfare Enhancing Direct Investment
- This paper presents a model and condition in which an acceptance of direct investment is welfare enhancing for a developing country in a multi-commodity multi-factor framework. Contrary to the pessimistic conventional wisdom of Uzawa-Hamada-Brecher-Diaz proposition, this paper provides a justification for capital importation and the export-led growth policy in developing...
- White papers 2006-07-15
- FDI In The Telecommunication Sectors Of Transition And Developing Countries
- The international structure of the telecommunication market is changing rapidly, shaped by waves of privatization, technological progress and international activism of Multinational Companies and former national monopolists. With the signature of Agreement on Basic Telecommunications and the Reference Paper of 1997, 69 member countries of the WTO have engaged in...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- The Determinants Of Liberalization Of FDI Policy In Developing Countries
- The decade of the 1990s was characterized by widespread liberalization of law and regulation affecting inflows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in developing countries.. Ninety-five percent of the changes in FDI policy over the decade were liberalizing rather than restrictive. Two possible explanations of liberalization are posited: policy makers' beliefs...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Flow Of Foreign Direct Investment To Hitherto Neglected Developing Countries
- The last decade or so has witnessed rather dramatic increases in the flow of Foreign Direct Investment FDI to the developing countries of the world. However, the balance of evidence seems to point in one direction, the inflow has been uneven. Middle-income developing countries have benefited from this upsurge at...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Investment Facilitation And Regulation In Developing Countries
- Even those living in the remotest corners of the globe; palpably feel the irreversible impacts of globalisation - both negative and positive. This fact poses numerous challenges for policymakers at all levels across countries, more particularly in the developing world. One of these challenges stems from a widespread concern that...
- White papers 2006-02-16
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Harm The Host Country's Environment?: Evidence From China
- As more manufacturing is moved to the developing countries, policy makers become concerned with the environmental consequence. Relatively lenient environmental policies in the developing countries may give them a comparative advantage in pollution intensive goods, and openness to trade and foreign direct investment might harm the host country's environment. This...
- White papers 2006-04-12
- Trade, FDI And Technology Diffusion In Developing Countries: The Role Of Human Capital And Institutions
- This paper examines the impact of inflows of foreign knowledge on economic development, in the context of different institutional development and differing levels of human capital. It employ threshold regression analysis based on Hansen (2000) to determine whether there is cross-country heterogeneity in the flows of foreign knowledge from advanced...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- International Trade, Economic Growth And Intellectual Property Rights
- This paper examines the role of high-technology trade, IPRs Intellectual Property Rights and FDI Foreign Direct Investment in determining a country's rate of innovation and economic growth. The empirical analysis is conducted using a unique panel data set of 47 developed and developing countries from 1970 to 1990. The results...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Political Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- In the 1990s, Foreign Direct Investment FDI became the largest single source of external finance in the developing world. Not only is FDI increasingly important in quantitative terms, it also has a number of qualitative characteristics important to developing countries. It is less volatile than portfolio flows, does not require...
- White papers 2006-09-28
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