Encouraging private capital flows and remittances

It's financeable in the private capital market.

50. The expansion of capital flows, including ODA, other official capital flows and private capital, was essential.

Trade, private capital flows, remittances and private transfers currently dwarfed amounts contributed through aid.

Table 2 Private capital flows to Africa, 1998 2003

Official flows are an important supplement to private capital flows.

Private and official transfers continued to the subregion. The amount of short term private capital and some capital repatriation attracted by high rates of interest was significant.

Private sector capital flows now dwarf traditional public sector aid flows.

Private capital flows have exploded since, dwarfing trade in goods and services.

Net private capital flows, particularly to developing economies, have become more volatile.

Some speakers noted the importance of developing private capital markets in Africa.

Public investment must be matched with private capital to accelerate these grids deployment

35. Indonesia has had very large capital inflows in the 1990s, mostly private.

When international private capital flows proceeded from countries with abundant capital resources to countries lacking capital and helped smooth out external shocks, they could in fact stimulate development.

Owners of private capital that could be allocated to productive investment will remain hesitant.

Private domestic capital formation is the largest source of new investment in developing communities.

Private capital flows play an increasingly important role in supplementing developing countries' domestic resources.

Private capital, which accounts for more than 90 of capital flows to developing economies, will remain the dominant source of long term financing.

It also envisions the protection of private or corporate capital and assets, and joint stock interests with foreign capital before and after reunification.

In normal times, deficits crowd out private investment (and perhaps crowd in private saving and or foreign capital), and hence reduce future growth.

In the overwhelming majority of countries, local private capital formation constituted the bulk of investment.

Helped by the Brady plan, most have regained access to the international private capital markets.

In addition, the physical capital loss is estimated to be around 3.5 billion, as a result of destruction of private and public infrastructure and capital stock and overuse of surviving physical capital.

In 2003, net private capital flows to developing countries had remained positive and continued to be the largest component of capital flows to such countries.

But meeting the challenge will require vigorous growth from America s other 30 especially private capital spending.

The economy was committed to comprehensive central planning and the abolition of private ownership of capital.

All these measures must be implemented taking into consideration that remittances constitute private flows of capital.

Recommendations were made on how to unlock this trapped capital in both private and public institutions.

2001 Short term private capital flows and economic crises, case study, Asian Tigers, Oxford, United Kingdom.

In the long term, private capital flows other than FDI tended to be highly pro cyclical.

2. The most dynamic components were private short term capital, including repatriation, and foreign direct investment.

Nevertheless, private equity continues to be a large and active asset class and the private equity firms, with hundreds of billions of dollars of committed capital from investors are looking to deploy capital in new and different transactions.

Earlier this year, Canada launched the Canada Investment Fund for Africa, a public private initiative designed to provide risk capital for private investments in Africa.

The pro cyclical boom bust cycles of private capital inflows and outflows underscore the need for developing market institutions and instruments that encourage more stable capital flows.

True, private capital flows have surged in the wake of global liberalization and these countries privatization schemes.

Southern Europe was experiencing a sell off of sovereign debt and a massive withdrawal of private capital.

Below are several recommendations that should help to encourage private capital flows and remittances to African countries

Appropriate regulation of developing country banking can also mitigate some of the problems of private capital flows.

Public funding alone, however, would not be adequate further private capital for sustainable development must be generated.

There were, of course, constraints privatization, for instance, was restricted by the insufficiency of domestic private capital.

She had co chaired a round table on trade, investment and private capital flows, and there had been good contributions from the private sector and civil society.

The Latin American region, in its remarkable turnaround in private capital inflows, gained new private finance on a gross basis of about 60 billion in 1992 alone.

The SOEs compete in product and labor markets with the private sector, but less so in capital markets.

In a currency union, however, central bank credit may play this role if private capital flows are insufficient.

These factors considerably limit those countries' ability to attract foreign direct investment and other international private capital flows.