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Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Prakash Loungani & Assaf Razin |
How Beneficial Is Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries? The resilience of foreign direct investment during financial crises may lead many developing countries to regard it as the private capital inflow of choice. Although there is substantial evidence that such investment benefits host countries, they should assess its potential impact...   |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Reint Gropp & Kristina Kostial |
FDI and Corporate Tax Revenue: Tax Harmonization or Competition? OECD countries with high corporate tax rates have experienced both high net outflows of foreign direct investment and a decline in corporate tax revenue. Identification of a causal link between these two trends has implications for the debate on tax harmonization... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Stanley Fischer |
Exchange Rate Regimes: Is the Bipolar View Correct? During the past decade, many countries have changed their exchange rate regimes, moving from crisis-prone soft pegs to hard pegs or floating regimes. This trend is likely to continue, particularly among emerging market countries... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Gyorgy Szapary |
Transition Countries' Choice of Exchange Rate Regime in the Run-Up to EMU Membership An important decision for the Central and Eastern European countries seeking membership in the European Union is choosing the most appropriate exchange rate regime. Experience has shown that many considerations are involved in this decision... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Paul Streeten |
Integration, Interdependence, and Globalization Although many commentators say we are living in a time of unprecedented global integration, the world economy was actually more integrated at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite increasing integration in some respects, today's world is in many ways fragmented and without coordination... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Paula De Masi |
Who Has a New Economy? IMF staff and other economists are conducting research into whether the relationship between information and communications technologies and productivity growth extends to other major industrial countries besides the U.S. The evidence so far is mixed... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Guy Pfeffermann |
Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Role of Private Enterprise The role of private enterprise in development has been neglected by scholars, governments, and aid organizations. This is regrettable: a vibrant private sector generates jobs, raises incomes, and makes better, cheaper goods and services available... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Paul Cashin |
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction: Some Cross-Country Evidence What is currently known about how countries' choices of macroeconomic policies affect their incidences of poverty, and what are the most promising directions for further investigation of this important relationship? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Gabrielle Lipworth & Jens Nystedt |
Crisis Resolution and Private Sector Adaptation The effect on existing debt of recent restructurings and rollovers is somewhat ambiguous and depends on whether positive news about individual instruments' recovery values outweighs negative news about the costs of default on them... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Ronald McKinnon |
Can the World Economy Afford U.S. Tax Cuts? The international dollar standard redux... |
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