What Factors Appear to Drive Private Capital Flows to Developing Countries? And How Does Official Lending Respond?

The authors study what drives private capital flows to developing countries, as well as the apparent response of official lending for the years 1978-97. Econometric results reveal that non-foreign direct investment portfolio flows to a country tend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dasgupta, Dipak, Ratha, Dilip
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
GDP
GNP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/07/436951/factors-appear-drive-private-capital-flows-developing-countries-official-lending-respond
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19821