Flight Capital

Author : David A. Heenan
Publisher : Davies-Black Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780891062028
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight Capital written by David A. Heenan and published by Davies-Black Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the United States has been a magnet for human capital - ambitious, talented immigrants came to make their fortunes and stayed to pump wealth into the U.S. economy. Today America relies more than ever on immigrant brainpower: over half the PhDs working here are foreign born, as are nearly half the physicists, computer scientists, and mathematicians, and many of Silicon Valley's high-tech leaders. But, David Heenan warns, they may not be here long. In Flight Capital, Heenan describes how, within the past decade, America has gone from being the top importer of brainpower to a net exporter. Empowered by the globalization of technology, emerging economies from Iceland to India are using aggressive initiatives to attract top knowledge workers. In a reverse brain drain, hundreds of thousands of the best and brightest in America are returning to their native lands to pursue new opportunities. Heenan recounts the stories of dozens of emigrating professionals in an engaging way to explore the various factors - personal, cultural, economic, and political - that are fueling the exodus. human capital and its consequences for America, at a time when a shortage of talented labor is exacerbated by post-9/11 immigration restrictions. The outflow of brainpower, Heenan argues, threatens U.S. technological and economic preeminence, and even our security, unless quick action is taken. He proposes a dozen hard-hitting measures to correct the situation, both short and long term. Timely and compelling, Flight Capital focuses attention on whether America will continue as a world leader, and on the new forces at play in the global economic community.

Author : Ms.Catherine A. Pattillo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451858485
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight Capital as a Portfolio Choice written by Ms.Catherine A. Pattillo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper sets flight capital in the context of portfolio choice, focusing upon the proportion of private wealth that is held abroad. There are large regional differences in this proportion, ranging from 5 percent in South Asia to 40 percent in Africa. We explain cross-country differences in portfolio choice by variables that proxy differences in the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital. We apply the results to four policy questions: how the East Asian crisis affected domestic capital outflows; herd effects; the effect of the IMF-World Bank debt relief initiative for heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPC) on capital repatriation; and why so much of Africa’s private wealth is held outside the continent.

Author : Gerald A. Epstein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781008058
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries written by Gerald A. Epstein and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital flight - the unrecorded export of capital from developing countries - often represents a significant cost for developing countries. It also poses a puzzle for standard economic theory, which would predict that poorer countries be importers of capital due to its scarcity. This situation is often reversed, however, with capital fleeing poorer countries for wealthier, capital-abundant locales. Using a common methodology for a set of case studies on the size, causes and consequences of capital flight in developing countries, the contributors address the extent of capital flight, its effects, and what can be done to reverse it. Case studies of Brazil, China, Chile, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and the Middle East provide rich descriptions of the capital flight phenomena in a variety of contexts. The volume includes a detailed description of capital flight estimation methods, a chapter surveying the impact of financial liberalization, and several chapters on controls designed to solve the capital flight problem. The first book devoted to the careful calculation of capital flight and its historical and policy context, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in the areas of international finance and economic development.

Author : Léonce Ndikumana
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192594222
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa written by Léonce Ndikumana and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa investigates the dynamics of capital flight from Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, and South Africa, countries that have witnessed large-scale illicit financial outflows in recent decades. Quantitative, qualitative, and institutional analysis for each country is used to examine the modus operandi of capital flight; that is, the 'who', 'how', and 'where' dimensions of the phenomenon. 'Who' refers to major domestic and foreign players; 'how' refers to mechanisms of capital acquisition, transfer, and concealment; and 'where' refers to the destinations of capital flight and the transactions involved. The evidence reveals a complex network of actors and enablers involved in orchestrating and facilitating capital flight and the accumulation of private wealth in offshore secrecy jurisdictions. This underscores the reality that capital flight is a global phenomenon, and that measures to curtail it are a shared responsibility for Africa and the global community. Addressing the problem of capital flight and related issues such as trade misinvoicing, money laundering, tax evasion, and theft of public assets by political and economic elites will require national and global efforts with a high level of coordination.

Author : Simeon Ibidayo Ajayi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198718551
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Flight from Africa written by Simeon Ibidayo Ajayi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive thematic analysis of capital flight from Africa, it covers the role of safe havens, offshore financial centres, and banking secrecy in facilitating illicit financial flows and provides rich insights to policy makers interested in designing strategies to address the problems of capital flight and illicit financial flows

Author : Harald Eggerstedt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Capital Flight written by Harald Eggerstedt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mr.Mohsin S. Khan
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 9781557757913
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book External Debt and Capital Flight in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Mr.Mohsin S. Khan and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounting external debt and large-scale capital flight have been at the forefront of Africa's economic problems since the 1980s. External Debt and Capital Flight in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by S. Ibi Ajayi and Mohsin S. Khan, takes a penetrating look at debt and capital flight during the 1990s in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. The book describes the size and composition of debt in the selected countries and examines the causes of the debt buildup. It also assesses the extent of capital flight and suggests ways of stemming the flight of financial resources.

Author : Simeon Ibidayo Ajayi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic Analysis of Capital Flight from Nigeria written by Simeon Ibidayo Ajayi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benu Varman-Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429715005
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Flight From Developing Countries written by Benu Varman-Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author defines, measures, and explains the phenomenon of capital flight from developing countries. She attempts to incorporate the causes of capital flight in the measurement procedure.

Author : Victor A. B. Davies
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Flight and War written by Victor A. B. Davies and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of inflation on post-war capital flight flows. I test the hypothesis that inflation has a positive additional impact on capital flight flows after war. I use a new panel dataset of 77 developing countries, of which 35 experienced at least one episode of war between 1971 and 2000. I use a range of estimation methods and four capital flight measures -- Cline, World Bank Residual, Morgan Guarantee, and Dooley. The results consistently support the research hypothesis: Post-war inflation increase annual capital flight flows by about 0.005 to 0.01 percentage points of GDP. This effect is substantial in total at high inflation rates. The implication is that low inflation helps to curb capital flight in post-conflict economies.