This paper examines the interaction between capital flows and international reserve holdings in the context of increasing financial integration. For emerging markets the sensitivity of reserves to net capital flows was negative in the 1980s, but became positive after the Asian crisis when these...

This paper examines the interaction between capital flows and international reserve holdings in the context of increasing financial integration. For emerging markets the sensitivity of reserves to net capital flows was negative in the 1980s, but became positive after the Asian crisis when these...

The surge in private capital flows to developing countries during the 1990s has largely by-passed sub-Saharan Africa. In sharp contrast to the earlier lending boom of 1977-82, when sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 8.9 percent of total private flows to developing countries, the region accounted...