Author: Maanik Nath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359053
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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The great majority of the population in colonial and postcolonial India lived in the countryside and were poor. Many were unable to find gainful work outside agriculture and remained dependent on a livelihood that provided only subsistence, and a precarious one. Seeking the roots of persistent poverty, Maanik Nath finds that the pervasive high cost and shortage of capital affected the peasant's ability to invest in land. The productivity of land, as a result, remained small and changed little. Bridging economic theory and historical evidence, Capital Shortage shows that climate, law, policy design, and interactions between these factors, perpetuated a stubborn cycle of low investment and widespread deprivation over several decades. These findings can be tested against credit and development in preceding and succeeding periods as well as positioned in comparative global context.
Author: Zia Qureshi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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October 1995 A severe global capital squeeze and a big increase in global real interest rates (which some fear) are unlikely if industrial countries continue fiscal consolidation -- especially the reform of social security systems. Without such consolidation, global real interest rates could rise well above already high recent levels (about 4 percent), with adverse consequences for all countries. Qureshi assesses the medium- to long-term outlook for global demand and supply of capital. He reaches the following conclusions: * The demand for investment funds in developing countries will remain strong, but most increased demand will likely be met by domestic savings. Investment's share in GDP will probably rise in these countries, but so will savings' share, so their net claim on industrial countries' savings is likely to remain small. Of course, savings will not rise automatically. It is essential that policies, institutions, and the economic environment be conducive to saving. * Financial liberalization and integration of international capital markets will continue to give developing countries as a group improved access to private foreign capital. But whether specific countries attract and sustain such inflows will depend on their economic prospects and policies, including conditions that promote domestic saving and investment (to both attract foreign capital and help limit it to sustainable levels). Investment needs in developing countries are great, but effective demand for foreign capital will remain limited by the countries' perceived creditworthiness and viability. Despite the sharp rise in aggregate private capital flows to developing countries in the 1990s, only a dozen or so of them receive significant amounts of private capital. * Most low-income countries will continue to depend mainly on official capital for some time. But official capital will likely be increasingly scarce, so these countries must intensify their domestic resource mobilization and accelerate the policy reform needed to attract private investment. * The critical factor in alleviating pressure on global interest rates will be progress on fiscal consolidation in industrial countries, especially the reform of social security systems. Net capital flows from industrial to developing countries are much smaller than the budget deficits in industrial countries. In 1994, for example, lowering the industrial countries' budget deficit by about 20 percent would have freed up enough money to finance the entire net capital flow to developing countries. * International capital markets will tend to remain tight in the coming decade, but a severe global capital squeeze and a big increase in global real interest rates (which some fear) are unlikely if industrial countries continue fiscal consolidation. Without such consolidation, global real interest rates could rise well above already high recent levels of about 4 percent, with adverse consequences for all countries. This paper -- a product of the International Economic Analysis and Prospects Division, International Economics Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to analyze major trends and issues in the global economic outlook and their implications for developing countries.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
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Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Saving and investment
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Author: Edith Holt Whetham
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Capital Needs and Monetary Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
Publisher:
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Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management Generally
Publisher:
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Category : Capital gains tax
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Author: Yasuma Takata
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349149543
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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This volume examines central questions about the nature of economic theory, its historical development and its explanatory power. What determines economic distribution - can pure economic theory itself explain the fundamentals of distribution or is a broader economics incorporating theories of power in society necessary? The book presents the debate through classic statements of each position from two leading economists of the century, Joseph A. Schumpeter and Yasuma Takata. A substantive introduction from Michio Morishima assesses and places in context the work of both Schumpeter and Takata.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Capital
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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