• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: What factors appear to drive private capital flows to developing countries? : and how does official lending respond?
  • Contributor: Das Gupta, Dipak [Author]; Ratha, Dilip [Other]
  • Corporation: World Bank, Development Prospects Group ; World Bank, Middle East and North Africa Region, Social and Economic Development Group
  • imprint: Washington, DC (1818 H St., NW, Washington 20433); s.l.: Development Prospects Group, [2000]
    Online-Ausg.
  • Published in: Policy research working paper ; 2392
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (23 p); ill; 28 cm
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: World Bank Developing countries ; Capital movements Developing countries
  • Reproductino series: World Bank E-Library Archive
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Reproduction note: Also available in print
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "July 2000"--Cover
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 18)
  • Description: Private portfolio flows to a country tend to rise in response to an increase in the current account deficit, a rise in foreign direct investment flows, higher per capita income, and growth performance. The most important determinant of official lending to a developing country seems to be the external current account balance or a change in international reserves in the country