capital controls
description: monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country
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How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
by Joe Studwell · 6 Dec 2025 · 393pp · 148,223 words
per cent of the Mauritian workforce.27 Another sector that began to grow strongly in this period was financial services. Primed by the end of capital controls in 1991, financial services grew initially as a conduit for investments into India. Mauritius had a double taxation avoidance treaty with India which exempted local
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to his group of watch, jewellery, toy and handicraft factories in 1983, de Grivel complained that the complex paperwork needed to obtain foreign exchange under capital controls was undermining manufacturers. ‘An hour later, the governor of the Bank of Mauritius called me,’ says de Grivel. ‘The next day we met at the
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and economic progress forwards. In finance, the Mauritian government created the Development Bank of Mauritius to channel cheap credit to early import substitution industrialisation ventures. Capital controls were maintained until the early 1990s – against IMF advice – forcing foreign investors to retain capital onshore and corralling domestic funds for national development. The monopoly
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policy that Mauritian sugar barons would not direct their revenues to other jurisdictions. When the time came to build an offshore financial services sector, though, capital controls were abandoned and regulations changed. Financial policy was used to serve the cause of development, not ideology. The Mauritian cocktail took GDP per capita from
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a South Korean government institution set up in 1961, was established to promote manufactured exports. Again in the tradition of East Asian states that maintained capital controls and were thus able to manipulate the international value of their currencies, Ethiopia devalued its currency, the birr, in 2010 by a fifth to make
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East Asian tradition. The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia operated as the national development bank, making loans to targeted industrial and infrastructural projects, including the GERD. Capital controls, though relaxed somewhat under Abiy, kept Ethiopian money at home and allowed the government to make managed depreciations to promote manufacturing exports. The whole financial
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as a site to house technology start-ups as well as more university facilities.24 Rwanda’s financial system echoed Singapore’s in dispensing with capital controls to allow the free movement of money. Formerly state-owned commercial banks were sold off to foreign investors, including ones from Kenya and Nigeria. Other
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countries has been that each has made its financial system serve the interests of development policy. In East Asia, this was done most controversially through capital controls – bureaucratic restrictions on the movement of capital in and out of the economy. Such controls allowed governments to manage the exchange rate, to compel citizens
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to invest their savings at home and to prevent capital flight in times of crisis. The IMF has opposed the use of capital controls, although it has toned down its rhetoric in recent years. Among the early movers in Africa, even otherwise economically orthodox Botswana employed
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the exchange rate of the pula to prevent appreciation and protect the interests of the cattle-exporting elite. In Mauritius, capital controls were not completely lifted until 1994, with the government not just managing its currency but also manipulating bank interest rates to offer favoured local firms
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cheap credit. In Ethiopia, strict capital controls remained in place to support the government’s industrial policy agenda. Only Rwanda – with its ambition to be a Singapore-style magnet for cross-border
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fund flows in Central Africa – got rid of capital controls (like the majority of African states that followed IMF advice unquestioningly). None the less, Rwanda nurtured the Development Bank of Rwanda as the financing vehicle
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. The era of the SAPs in the 1980s and 1990s involved wholesale privatisation of banking systems, including sales to foreign banks, and the ending of capital controls on money entering or leaving national banking systems. A review by UNCTAD found that, as of 1997, more than thirty African countries had signed up
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loans – and the fastest-growing – in tiny Rwanda. A BRD Export Growth Fund supported twenty-eight projects. The experience indicated that, in the absence of capital controls, African governments could find second-best ways to ensure the financing of manufacturers.16 Cheaper, Better Resourced, Better Placed Compared with the early decades of
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coalitions establish financial systems that support smallholder agriculture and manufacturing and their associated infrastructure. Unless there is a strong practical case not to, coalitions maintain capital controls in order to manage the national exchange rate and keep domestic savings at home to fund development. Rwanda, following the Singapore financial centre model, has
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had a practical reason to dispense with capital controls in order to attract international fund flows; it has been the only early mover country to do so. Mauritius, Ethiopia and Rwanda all targeted small
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finance infrastructure that supports agriculture and export manufacturing and to finance industrial projects that raise the technological capacity of the economy and generate export earnings. Capital controls make a lot of sense for governments with sufficient capacity to deploy them prudently. Development banks are essential to the provision of long-term finance
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, a crop of 713,000 tonnes was an all-time Mauritian sugar record. 19 Treebhoohun and Jutliah, ‘Mauritius Country Illustration’, p. 17. The existence of capital controls until 1994 prevented the re-export of sugar earnings. In the late 1980s, sugar taxes accounted for 13 per cent of government revenues. The tax
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Rest Introduction 1 Taiwan’s Gini of inequality in 2000 was 0.33. 2 For Mauritian capital controls, see Mauritius: Selected Issues, IMF Country Report No. 08/237 (Washington D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2008). Most Mauritian capital controls were lifted in 1991, the rest in 1994. 3 Fasika Tadesse, ‘IMF Support Helps Ethiopia
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, 190, 204, 230, 232, 234, 241, 250, 258, 262, 266, 269, 270, 273, 274, 305, 331 aid donors and 329–32 Article 8 and 281 capital controls 175 democracy and 13, 311 developmental outcomes, East Asian range of 313 early mover African economies and influence of see individual nation name education 7
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47, 103, 148, 149, 155, 159, 279, 283–4 Bangwato 114–16, 122, 354n, 356n Bank of Botswana 118, 125, 132 Bank One 157 banks capital controls see capital controls deposits 9 development banks 118, 145, 159, 206, 219, 225, 232, 248–9, 278, 281–3, 291–2, 307, 309, 310, 373n interest rates
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donors and 118, 119, 125–6, 330 budget discipline 110, 124, 126, 127, 130 budgetary aid in run-up to independence, British 119, 143–4 capital controls 232 capital, construction of national 119 civil service 120, 126, 314 coalitions, political 110, 115–20, 122, 134–5, 138, 139, 141–2, 144, 158
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Bush, George W. 282, 328–9 Business Botswana 134 C Cambodia 262, 283, 284, 389n, 394n Cape Colony 113–14 Cape Town, South Africa 39 capital controls 9, 63, 150, 153, 159–60, 175, 206, 219, 225, 232, 281–2, 306–7, 326, 362–3n cattle 19–20, 23, 38, 95, 114
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, 267, 305–7, 316, 325–6, 366n, 370n, 372n, 373n, 401n aid donors and 164, 178, 330 ‘An Economic Development Plan for Ethiopia’ 162–3 capital controls 175, 206, 232 Chinese investments in 176, 177, 178, 184, 185, 188, 190, 191, 199, 201, 205, 229, 231 civil service 1, 160, 165, 315
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Fertility Rates 45–6 financial services 9–10, 112, 150, 157–60, 215 financial systems/policy banks and see banks Botswana 121, 123, 131, 138 capital controls 9, 63, 150, 153, 159, 160, 175, 206, 219, 225, 232, 281, 282, 306–7, 326, 362–3n developmental coalitions and 304, 306–7, 325
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, 156–8, 160, 230, 305–7, 319, 325 aid and 143–4 Asian development policy path and 110, 154, 158, 160, 161 birth rate 148 capital controls 150, 153, 159–60, 232 civil service 144, 160, 314 coalition, developmental 110, 141–2, 144, 149, 151–2, 157–8, 160–61, 229, 230
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, 231, 248, 261, 262, 267, 307, 318–19, 325, 381n aid donors and 112, 214, 216, 222, 225, 229, 282 Arusha Accords and 210, 378n capital controls, dispenses with 219, 225, 232, 306 coalition, developmental 223–4, 229 colonialism and 207, 208 democracy in 220, 224 Democratic Republic of Congo and 35
The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words
ability of the government to govern and businesspeople to make a profit by applying neoliberal orthodoxy: control the money supply, confront the unions and remove capital controls. Ronald Reagan applied a similar formula in the United States, and eventually European governments followed. The neoliberal revolution certainly involved pain for some workers (notably
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport · 17 Sep 2012 · 197pp · 60,477 words
name, finding this money was proving difficult. A commitment to dogsledding across Antarctica, it turns out, doesn’t read well on a résumé. Control Requires Capital Control is seductive. As I discovered at Red Fire Farm, this trait defines the type of dream jobs that keeps cubicle dwellers up at night. It
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common
by Alan Greenspan · 14 Jun 2007
impact of financial openness on democracy [is] not as strong but still point[s] in the same direction [and] .. . democracies are more likely to remove capital controls." Accordingly, we should focus on addressing and assuaging the fears induced by the dark side of creative destruction rather than imposing limits on the economic
Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi · 9 Feb 2007 · 1,202pp · 424,886 words
, surplus German dollars borrowed by Italians ended up passing through London instead of New York. Another important stimulus to the Eurodollar market was the various capital controls that the United States instituted during the 1960s to improve its balance of payments, which was in deficit. The first of these, the Interest Equalization
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today (see Figure 18.3). The wide yield spreads created a strong incentive for central banks to shift their deposits offshore into the Eurodollar market. Capital controls put in place by the United States in 1965 that were subsequently abolished in 1974 had an important influence on the yield spread, with lending
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pickup that could be earned by investing dollar deposits offshore instead of in the United States remained relatively high following the abolishment of U.S. capital controls in 1974, primarily because of reserve requirements on dollar deposits, which stood at 6%. This meant that U.S. banks would be willing to pay
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would place offshore. These measures became unnecessary when the segmentation that had developed in the onshore and offshore money markets as a result of capital controls evaporated when the capital controls were lifted (McCauley, 2005). Choosing between Eurodollar and U.S. Bonds Since foreign central banks hold only about a third of their official
Principles of Corporate Finance
by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen · 15 Feb 2014
. N. Kaplan and R. S. Ruback, “The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Finance 50 (September 1995), pp. 1059–1093. 26Such capital controls have been described as financial roach motels: Money can get in, but it can’t get out. 27In theory, safe means literally “risk-free,” like
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
capital and technology. Countries will fail unless they are open to flows, but they need sensible frictions to gain the upside while minimizing the downside: capital controls on speculative investment, limited liberalization to ensure domestic industrial competitiveness, radiation scanners at ports, immigration quotas to avoid overburdening public services, passport scanners cross-checked
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balance between local needs and global connectedness. Brazil, for example, now requires foreign car manufacturers to invest in local renewable energy research and has implemented capital controls to stem “hot money.” Countries such as Indonesia have stood their ground in raising corporate taxes and fees yet remain investment magnets because they ultimately
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
by Benn Steil · 14 May 2013 · 710pp · 164,527 words
resources before they can establish a re-adjustment.”49 The net result, he believed, would be more trade and more economic growth for all nations. Capital controls, Keynes argued, would also have to be made “a permanent feature of the post-war system,—at least so far as we [the British] are
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Bonn to negotiate new parities, but Shultz opposed the administration undertaking any obligation to defend them, which would have interfered with his priority of eliminating capital controls. In tense multilateral discussions, the United States now took up the battle stance that Keynes and the British had adopted, and Harry White resolutely opposed
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma · 8 Apr 2012 · 411pp · 114,717 words
nations—the World Economic Forum ranks it the fifth most sophisticated in the world—much of the money is trapped at home, a legacy of capital controls imposed by the apartheid regime to prevent money from fleeing the country. Even though those rules have been gradually relaxed since the 1990s, the pool
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be a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—a club of leading industrial powers—today. On the other hand Malaysia imposed capital controls to avoid the brunt of the hit in 1998, never reformed its system, and is falling behind its neighbors. Xie is most critical of Japan
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, 123 call centers, 141 Cambodia, 188 cameras, 237 Cameroon, 89 Canada, 26, 180, 215, 223 Canal Istanbul, 116 Cape Town, 171, 175 Cap Ferrat, 94 capital controls, 178, 189–90, 252 Capital Economics, 21 capital flows, viii, x, 4, 69, 70–71, 93–94, 107, 131, 178, 189–90, 201, 228–30
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Wolfgang Streeck · 1 Jan 2013 · 353pp · 81,436 words
economies are already incapable of growth. 73 See a few thoughts on the subject in chapter 4 below. 74 In combination with low interest rates, capital controls and high inflation, this may add up to a public debt reduction strategy. The technical name for it is ‘financial repression’ (C. Reinhart and M
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domestic political demands for social justice, without being punished in their external economy. Capital flight could be prevented, or at least restricted, by means of capital controls, and this weakened the bargaining power of investors with respect to the minimum profit level they could demand from society in return for investing their
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not as easily be ended as in the 1980s. And it would not mainly affect the owners of monetary assets – who, in a world without capital controls, can jump much more easily from one currency to another – but rather the, today, much larger numbers of pensioners and social assistance claimants. Workers too
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to look for ways in which restored national currencies could be protected from speculative attacks – probably including, as both desirable and necessary, a return to capital controls of one kind or another.30 It would also have to be made clear how expensive it would be for a country to withdraw from
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