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Many developing countries are currently considering liberalisation of external capital flows. While the ultimate objective of financial opening is to raise efficiency and growth, the reform process must be carefully designed to achieve these results. A recent conference has discussed the policy...
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The present financial policies of the developing countries are hardly likely to create favourable conditions for economic growth. A change can only be brought about if the financing of development projects and the imports of consumer goods can be successfully integrated in an overall plan for...
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The domestic capital markets of developing countries are typically subject to serious inefficiencies. This article shows how these inefficiencies can be eliminated without necessarily provoking an adjustment crisis and indicates the measures on which emphasis must be placed in the context of...
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The impact of migrant workers' remittances on economic activity in their home countries was long overshadowed by the … remittances but also the way in which they are used that is of crucial significance for the economies of the migrants' home … countries. This article estimates the contribution that such remittances made to GDP, private consumption expenditure, saving …
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One of the many new publications dealing with the reform of the International trade system is the report of the Trade Policy Research Centre "Towards an Open World Economy". The following article analyses and criticises the main proposals of the report.
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