This paper discusses possible strategies for developing countries in negotiations on trade in services in the ongoing WTO Doha Development Round (DR). The liberalization of service imports (including through direct investment) will generate benefits through higher quality, lower prices, and...

Formerly a favourite location for private capital inflows, Brazil was virtually cut off from further bank lending in the 1980s. The country's rating in secondary loan markets plummeted, and foreign direct investment dwindled. New external financing was replaced by an accumulation of interest...

Stabilisierungsprogramme scheitern häufig an der fehlenden Glaubwürdigkeit der Regierungspolitik im In- und Ausland. Deshalb wird für Osteuropa eine Fixierung des nominalen Wechselkurses als Patentrezept empfohlen, um die Inflationsbekämpfung glaubwürdiger zu machen. Dieser Vorschlag hält...