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That is, more money flowed out of Africa to creditors than returned as fresh lending.
Investment, particularly in energy, flowed in, as Westen companies hoped that oil and gas deposits in neighboring Azerbaijan meant that there must be some in Georgia, too.
Syrian intelligence and troops – present in Lebanon since 1976 – were forced out in 2005 only under enormous international pressure and $1billion were lost in smuggling revenue last year much of which previously flowed to the Syrian military.
It was the speculators whose blood flowed in the streets when they attacked Hong Kong’s dollar peg in 1998.
Unlike most other parts of the world, capital in Europe has flowed from rich to poor countries – essentially from West to East and South.
In Spain, for example, money flowed into the private sector from private banks.
But without them, the stream of new antiretroviral products used to fight AIDS would not have flowed, because the incentives for developing new drugs would be lacking.
The result was a massive reduction in global inequality, as capital flowed to places where wage levels were a tiny fraction of those in Western democracies.
British FDI has flowed largely to the telecommunications and financial services sectors, but development aid and infrastructure projects have also been a focus.
Capital flowed to remote places like Argentina, Russia, Malaya, and South Africa.
Likewise, capital has flowed into Iceland at such a rapid clip that the International Monetary Fund felt obliged to warn that, “overheating risks are a clear and present concern.”
Now, there is less external capital chasing returns in Europe and the emerging economies, and some that was there has already flowed back home.
Investors, and the rest of us, would be much better off if these funds flowed to more productive companies, perhaps with an amount equivalent to what would be transferred to bankers’ bonuses redirected to well-managed charities.
Unfortunately, the funds needed to implement these initiatives have not flowed as rapidly as the rhetoric.
Once upon a time, global foreign direct investment flowed from only a few sources: the traditionally wealthy states of Europe, North America, and Japan.
As a result, the capital that flowed to emerging markets in the years of high liquidity and low yields in advanced economies is now fleeing many countries where easy money caused fiscal, monetary, and credit policies to become too lax.
Between 1501 and 1600, 17 million kilograms of pure silver and 181,000 kilograms of pure gold flowed from the Americas to Spain, which spent the money on wars in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
That dependence is analogous to the way in which money from emerging economies, mostly in Asia, flowed into the US in the 2000’s, when an apparent economic miracle was based on China’s willingness to lend.
In recent decades, a large number of immigrants have flowed into the region; with few exceptions, they have not faced racism and discrimination.
Although these booms were initially financed by domestic capital, they soon became dependent on foreign capital, which flowed into their economies as advanced-country central banks pumped huge amounts of liquidity into financial markets.
Subsistence flowed according to their goodwill and was supported by conventions of sharing and trust.
Moreover, money has flowed back to Northern Europe from the distressed periphery.
Indeed, after the hostage crisis in the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow in 2002, the same sort of harsh words flowed, but no extra money was spent.
Many of the other themes flowed from this general conclusion.
Assurances of US investment in Bengal’s development flowed; whether funds will actually follow remains to be seen.
But this view misses the real reason why capital flowed into emerging markets over the last few years, and why the external accounts of so many of them have swung into deficit.
Much liquidity has flowed under the bridge since then, and Hill is now drawing his euro-pension.
Of that amount, $185 billion was invested in newly issued government bonds, and the other $755 billion flowed into interest- and dividend-paying savings vehicles such as loans, corporate bonds, and new equity issues, which in turn added to the US private sector’s productive-capital stock.
But such limited intervention can hardly explain the billions of public-sector dollars that have flowed toward downstream applied research, even providing early-stage financing for companies.
Indeed, in 2009, more than $1 trillion in private capital flowed to developing countries – nine times more than total aid.
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