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5 Foreign Direct Investment in South Africa: Why Has It Been So Low? »
Chapter
Source: Post-Apartheid South Africa : The First Ten Years
Series: Books
Author(s): M. Nowak , and Luca Ricci
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 January 2006
ISBN: 9781589064706
Keywords: inflation, hiv/aids, monetary policy, unemployment, exchange rate
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a considerable role in the development of South Africa’s economy, although in more recent years FDI has remained at relatively low levels compared with other emergi...
3. Managing Volatile Capital Flows: Experiences and Lessons for Sub-Saharan African Frontier Markets »
Chapter
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, October 2013, Sub-Saharan Africa : Keeping the Pace
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 October 2013
ISBN: 9781475553413
Keywords: frontier markets, exchange rate, capital inflows, current account
Throughout the past three years, the frontier market economies of sub-Saharan Africa have received growing amounts of portfolio capital flows. 1 During the 2000s, sub-Saharan Afri...
VII Indices of Exchange and Capital Controls and Relationships with Economic Development »
Chapter
Source: Exchange Rate Arrangements and Currency Convertibility : Developments and Issues
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): R. Johnston , and Mark Swinburne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 September 1999
ISBN: 9781557757951
Keywords: foreign exchange, exchange rate, foreign exchange market, interbank market
Evaluating the restrictiveness of exchange regimes is a complex task, but in recent years it has been regarded as an important element of reaching a better analytical understanding of the impact of exchange...