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Strong growth in China and India has led to improvements in raw-material exporting countries' terms of trade and attracted complementary finance. The long-term challenge for these countries, where institutions are often fragile, is to avoid the so-called “resource curse”. This paper aims to...
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This paper examines how the different forms of development finance for low-income countries are likely to be affected by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the channels of transmission of the crisis for particular...
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Au cours des dernières décennies, les IDE ont figuré parmi les principaux bénéficiaires de la libéralisation des mouvements de capitaux, tant et si bien qu’ils constituent aujourd’hui la forme principale des entrées de capitaux dans de nombreux pays en développement, y compris des...
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Remittance flows are an important source of financing for developing countries. In addition to the microeconomic impact at the household level, remittances have grown into an important pillar of macroeconomic stability, reducing volatility of external flows, lessening the probability of current...
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Global allocation of capital and fluctuations in asset prices are increasingly influenced by the activities of Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The Santiago Principles called for higher transparency, stressing that SWFs should exhibit clearer governance standards and sound portfolio management...
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La notion d’« appropriation » locale des politiques de développement a fait son chemin dans la communauté des bailleurs. Pourtant, avec les niveaux actuels de conditionnalité, cette appropriation n’a guère de chance de se conforter. De puissantes raisons militent encore pour le...
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Au cours des derniers mois, dans un effort coordonné visant à redresser le système financier mondial, les gouvernements des pays membres de l’OCDE se sont engagés à hauteur de plusieurs milliers de milliards de dollars sous la forme d’emprunts, de garanties, d’injections de capital et...
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L’essor du commerce avec la Chine et l’Inde ouvre de nouvelles possibilités d’exportation à l’Amérique latine. Les pays d’Amérique latine doivent investir dans les infrastructures et l’innovation.
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The idea of local “ownership” of development policies is now popular among the donor community, but without a reduction of conditionality on aid disbursements, enhanced ownership will be difficult to achieve. While there are still strong reasons for attaching certain kinds of conditionality...
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Growing trade with China and India offers new export opportunities for Latin America. Latin American countries need to invest in infrastructure and innovation. * This Policy Insights is based on the Latin American Economic Outlook 2008.
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