Developing and transition economies are seeking to accelerate their development by liberalising trade and investment, and taking advantage of the opportunities of the global market place. However, in the wake of recent financial crises, concerns have been expressed that some countries might turn...

Countries receiving large-scale capital inflows are at risk if these flows do not find their way into productive and long-term investment, as the Asian crisis of the late 1990s has proven. This book, the result of a joint project between the OECD Development Centre and the UN Economic Commission...

The central question tackled here is that of the desirability of foreign direct investment over other flows, such as bank lending. There has been an undoubted rise in FDI flows as a proportion of all flows to the Latin American region, but how much of the cause is supply- or demand-driven...

This subset of the geographical distribution of financial flow dataset provides comprehensive statistics on the volume, origin and types of aid(portfolio investment, ODA loans, ODA grants,contractual lending, food aid) and other resource flows to developing countries on the DAC list of ODA...

This subset of the geographical distribution of financial flow dataset provides comprehensive statistics on the volume, origin and types of aid(portfolio investment, ODA loans, ODA grants,contractual lending, food aid) and other resource flows to developing countries on the DAC list of ODA...