Occasional Papers

Foreign Private Investment in Developing Countries

January 15, 1985

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Foreign Private Investment in Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1985) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

Since the early 1970s foreign direct and portfolio equity investment flows into developing countries, although continuing to increase in absolute terms, have been relatively less important than in previous years, as foreign private capital flows have been dominated by debt-creating bank credit.

Subject: Balance of payments, Bank credit, External debt, Foreign direct investment, Labor, Money, Portfolio investment, Tax incentives, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Bank credit, Caribbean, Commercial bank debt, Developing country, Equity investment, Firm, Foreign direct investment, Global, Lending, Oil developing countries, OP, Portfolio, Portfolio equity inflow, Portfolio equity investment, Portfolio investment, Wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    51

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Occasional Paper No. 1985/001

  • Stock No:

    S033EA0000000

  • ISBN:

    9781557750662

  • ISSN:

    0251-6365

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