The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the three results in the existing literature (and to add a fourth result) in a single unified framework and thus to identify the conditions under which the capital-exporting and capital-importing countries gain from international financial integration....

In 1985, James A. Baker III's "Program for Sustained Growth" proposed a set of economic policy reforms including, inflation stabilization, trade liberalization, greater openness to foreign investment, and privatization, that he believed would lead to faster growth in countries then known as the...