Capital-market Liberalization, Globalization, and the IMF
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Capital - Market Liberalization , Globalization , and the Imf
One of the most controversial aspects of globalization is capital-market liberalization—not so much the liberalization of rules governing foreign direct investment, but those affecting short-term capital flows, speculative hot capital that can come into and out of a country. In the 1980s and 1990s, the IMF and the US Treasury tried to push capital-market liberalization around the world, encount...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Review of Economic Policy
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1460-2121
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/20.1.57