Publication

Dec 2002

This publication discusses why global private capital flows have barely touched the poorest nations. After analyzing the question analytically and mathematically the author comes to the conclusion that investors are wealth biased. Further on, the publication finds that poor country lenders are deterred from investing in poor countries to nearly the same degree that rich country lenders are.

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Author Michael Clemens
Series CGD Working Papers
Issue 19
Publisher Center for Global Development (CGD)
Copyright © 2002 Center for Global Development (CGD)
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