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Foreign Direct Investment
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper summarizes the theory and empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign direct investment. These determinants include expected relative rates of return, risk diversification, market size, technological advantage, market failure, oligopolistic rivalry, liquidity, currency strength,...
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Financial Globalization : The Impact on Trade, Policy, Labor, and Capital Flows
International Monetary Fund - 2007
. Articles also look at the expansion of world trade, explore the impact of globalization on jobs, taxation, and the poor, and …Assiduously tracking the trends and consequences of globalization, the IMF's quarterly magazine Finance & Development … focuses on financial globalization, including the policy implications of the huge growth in cross-border capital flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404799
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Making the Global Economy Work for All (Revised)
International Monetary Fund - 2004
set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy. Through its work, the IMF helps to keep the … world economy running as smoothly as possible. Its work is aimed partly at the prevention of economic and financial crises … countries' economic size, determine countries' voting power in the IMF and the limits to what they can borrow. The IMF and World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397381
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Debt-Equity Composition of International Investment
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Capital flows to the nonindustrial countries share three striking characteristics. First, the bulk, of these flows was in the form of debt, not equity; second, the loans were mostly to, or guaranteed by, debtor governments; and third, these debts were largely bank loans, not bonds. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396446
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Risk Instability and the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East and North Africa Region
International Monetary Fund - 2004
This paper demonstrates that instability associated with investment risk is critical in explaining the level of foreign direct investment for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, which generally have higher investment risk than developed countries. The empirical results support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401431
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Republic of Korea: selected issues
Eskesen, Leif - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504217
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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
Increased globalization - the international integration of markets forgoods, technology, labor, and capital - has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058164
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A Window of Opportunity : The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda
International Monetary Fund - 2017
The global recovery continues. Although it is not yet complete, the more favorable conjuncture offers an opportunity to tackle key policy challenges to stave off medium-term downside risks, rebuild buffers, and raise potential output. Countries should undertake well-sequenced reforms to increase...
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Developments in the DOHA Round and Selected Activities of Interest to the Fund
International Monetary Fund - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409934
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External Sector Report, July 2018 : Tackling Global Imbalances amid Rising Trade Tensions
International Monetary Fund - 2018
, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408937