Jan Toporowski
Growth of international finance and emerging economies: Elements for an alternative approach
Toporowski, Jan; Alves, Carolina
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Carolina Alves
Abstract
This paper examines the increasing cross-border flows of capital involving developing and emerging economies in the past few decades. The discussion challenges the traditional economic theories based on net capital flows and deficits in current accounts to explain international borrowing by developing countries, and on the current account imbalances approach to explain financial crises. We argue that the increasing involvement of the private sector in developing countries’ external debt and the fact that the public sector, previously reliant almost entirely on official credit, has become able to access private debt markets, reflect the increasing integration of developing countries into the global financial system, and this process has particular features. A closer look at data on gross capital flows reveals that net capital flows neither explain nor capture this global financial integration.
Citation
Toporowski, J., & Alves, C. (2019). Growth of international finance and emerging economies: Elements for an alternative approach. PSL Quarterly Review, 72(288), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3643_72.288_1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 15, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 1, 2019 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jul 24, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 24, 2019 |
Print ISSN | 2037-3635 |
Electronic ISSN | 2037-3643 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 72 |
Issue | 288 |
Pages | 3-26 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.13133/2037-3643_72.288_1 |
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© 2019 Carolina Alves, Jan Toporowski. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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