This note discusses the challenges that emerging markets face in managing capital flow volatility. The note lays out a conceptual framework for evaluating deviations from a first-best world in which capital flows have desirable characteristics, and then categorises the reasons that might explain...

Examines Asia's emerging markets, which survived the financial debacle of 2008-09 with only modest declines in growth; discusses activities that could dampen continuing development in these markets including inflation, surging capital inflows, asset and credit bubbles, and rapid currency...

In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...