long-term investment, as the Asian crisis of the late 1990s has proven. This book, the result of a joint project between … able to use policy to direct capital inflows into investment and thereby reduce the risk of instability in the financial …-oriented environment conducive to more sound external investment. The lessons of this book are as applicable in other regions of the world …

The central question tackled here is that of the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as …