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Foreign capital
inflows
would allow them to draw on the savings of rich countries, increase their investment rates, and stimulate growth.
When countries suffer from low investment demand, freeing up capital
inflows
does not do much good.
In fact, capital
inflows
can make things worse, because they tend to appreciate the domestic currency and make production in export activities less profitable, further weakening the incentive to invest.
Thus, the pattern in emerging market economies that liberalized capital
inflows
has been lower investment in the modern sectors of the economy, and eventually slower economic growth (once the consumption boom associated with the capital
inflows
plays out).
By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.
Nothing can kill growth more effectively than an uncompetitive currency, and there is no faster route to currency appreciation than a surge in capital
inflows.
Instead, too many developing countries have allowed their currencies to become overvalued, relying on booming commodity demand or financial
inflows.
Finally, there is a generalized fear of the unknown, as many countries confront issues relating to
inflows
of foreigners – whether refugees or migrants – and internal changes brought about by the increasing economic and political empowerment of women and minorities.
That is why educational investments to improve future opportunities must be paired with progressive immigration policies that facilitate
inflows
of the skilled workers needed to address today’s talent shortages.
Indeed, one day we face surging capital inflows, as investors go into “risk-on” mode, and outflows the next as they switch risk off.
The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital
inflows
and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.
A high rate of private saving and strong
inflows
of capital from abroad have supported investment in plant and equipment.
Government investment in infrastructure, both alone and in partnership with private firms, will also directly benefit growth and attract larger
inflows
of foreign investment.
The massive IMF-European Union bailout did nothing to catalyze private capital
inflows.
A rising tide of capital
inflows
-- not only direct, but also portfolio investment -- increases their foreign liabilities.
But this Chinese FDI is bundled together with concessional loans, and there is much double-counting, with the same ventures being recorded both as aid flows and as
inflows
of FDI.
And no matter how much China publicizes its record in Africa, the greatest contributor of financial
inflows
to the continent is the African diaspora.
But this will create its own challenges, including recurrent inflationary pressures and surges in capital inflows, leading to greater policy experimentation.
Taiwan has been a major supplier of foreign capital flowing into China, contributing twice as much as the US and accounting roughly for 20% of China's total
inflows.
The fact that nearly half of all Arabs depend on freshwater
inflows
from non-Arab countries, including Turkey and the upstream states on the Nile River, may serve to exacerbate water insecurity further.
First, most emerging markets feel their currencies pressed to appreciate by growing capital
inflows.
China could have vetoed both resolutions, in order to avoid North Korea’s collapse and the
inflows
of refugees that would result from it.
The problem that emerging and developing economies are facing stems from the fact that their capital
inflows
follow a strongly pro-cyclical pattern.
No wonder recipient countries resist
inflows
of hot capital.
When capital
inflows
suddenly stopped, they could not cope, requiring them to increase exports.
Those
inflows
are now causing the GCC population to grow four times faster than in emerging markets and the United States, seven times faster than in China, and ten times faster than in the eurozone.
Unfortunately, along with this life support came the pain of withdrawal – not only for asset-dependent consumers and businesses in the United States, but also for foreign economies dependent on capital
inflows
driven by QE-distorted interest-rate spreads.
Sweden and Germany receive the largest
inflows
of immigrants by far – and Germany is nearly ten times the size of Sweden.
Many Asian and Latin America countries, in particular, are considered vulnerable to a reversal of the capital
inflows
from which they benefited when US interest rates were at rock-bottom levels.
Industries that depend heavily on external finance grew faster in countries with large capital
inflows
than in countries with more modest
inflows.
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