Managing Volatile Capital Flows : Experiences and Lessons for Sub-Saharan African Frontier Markets /

During the past three years the frontier markets of sub-Saharan Africa have received growing amounts of portfolio capital flows, with heightened interest from foreign investors. Compared with foreign direct investment, portfolio capital flows tend to be more volatile, and thus pose challenges for su...

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Autore principale: Gueye, Cheikh
Altri autori: Arze del Granado, Javier, Garcia-Verdu, Rodrigo, Hussain, Mumtaz
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Serie:Departmental Papers; Departmental Paper ; No. 2014/002
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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