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External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa »
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557755254.038
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
This booklet is a collection of papers presented at a seminar on policies for growth in Africa, held in Paris in February 1995 and sponsored by the Ministry of Finance of Japan. The seminar focused on four broad th...

Africa : Adjustment to the Challenges of Globalization »
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 January 1999
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557758293.071
ISBN: 9781557758293
Keywords: banking, expenditure, trade liberalization, civil service, banking system
Sub-Saharan Africa needs much faster economic growth and more effective economic, financial, and social policies if it is to make up for lost ground and reduce the number of people living in abject poverty. Edited...

Are Economywide Policies Good for the Environment? »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1993
Volume/Issue: 30/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1993
ISBN: 9781451952117
Keywords: public health, health care, clinical services, health spending, child mortality
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...

1 Meeting the Challenges of African Development »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
I would like to thank the organizers and the Government of Japan for holding this follow-up meeting to the seminar in Tokyo last year. I think a great many useful things were said t...

2 How to Facilitate Private Investment in Africa Based on the Experiences in East Asia »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
There are a number of issues that must be addressed when we examine how countries in Africa might facilitate private investment by utilizing the experience of the East Asian economi...

3 Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
This paper focuses on the “export-oriented investor” Such an investor has the choice of various locations in any part of the world. Many developing countries are “bending over backw...

4 Structural Adjustment Policies and Private Sector Development: Experience of Six Central African States »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
Adjustment policies are very important for the private sector. In fact, internal and external liberalization measures, which constitute the traditional elements of structural adjust...

5 Three Basic Wisdoms to Attract Foreign Direct Investment: An Indonesian Experience »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
When Indonesia embarked on a more rational attempt to develop its economy at the end of the 1960s, it began by enhancing private sector involvement, including inviting foreign direc...

6 Domestic Savings and Resource Mobilization: With Particular Reference to the Experiences in East Asia »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
Capital formation has been repeatedly stressed as a key to economic growth. This view is empirically supported by the close correlation between investment rates and growth rates in...

7 A Policy Framework for Resource Mobilization: An African Perspective »
Source: External Assistance and Policies for Growth in Africa
Series: Other Statistical Electronic Products
Author(s): Claire Liuksila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1995
ISBN: 9781557755254
Keywords: debt, debt management, external debt, debt service, interest
The formulation of an appropriate policy framework for effective resource mobilization in Africa must begin with an assessment of the role that the financial sector has played in th...