Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Road to Financial Integration
Автор:World Bank Group Год: 1997 Издание:A World Bank Policy Research Report Страниц: 424 ISBN: 0195211162 The world's financial markets are rapidly integrating into a single global marketplace, and developing countries are being drawn into this process starting from different points and moving at various speeds. Those with adequate institutions and sound policies in place may proceed smoothly along the road toward financial integration and gain the many benefits that integration can bring. Most of the developing economies lack many of the necessary prerequisites for such a move; a few are so unprepared that integration may do them more harm than good. Developing countries may have little choice about whether to follow this path - advances in communications and new developments in finance have made the course inevitable - but they may still choose the ways in which they proceed, choosing the policies that benefit the economy and averting potential shocks. This World Bank report looks at the important challenges both sets of countries face in a new age of global capital. The book...