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Why is the classification of international financial flows into short term and long term not stressed anymore today as it was in the past?
What was the size of the net financial outflows (including U.S. official reserve assets) in 2011? What was the size of the net financial inflows to the United S
What is meant by the current account? Did the United States have a deficit or a surplus in the current account in 2011? What was its size?
What is double-entry bookkeeping? Why does double-entry bookkeeping usually involve an entry called statistical discrepancy?
What is a credit transaction? a debit transaction? Which are the broad categories of international transactions classified as credits? as debits?
What is meant by the balance of payments? In what way is the balance of payments a summary statement? What is meant by an international transaction?
why the rate of return on U.S. direct investment in developing nations often exceeds rate of return on investment on US direct investments in developed nations.
What is meant by the exchange rate? How is the equilibrium exchange rate determined under a flexible exchange rate system?
What are the four different levels of participants in foreign exchange markets? What are the other functions of foreign exchange markets?
What are foreign exchange markets? What is their most important function? How is this function performed?
What effect does this transaction have on the official settlements balance of the United States?
How the following transaction is entered into the U.S. balance of payments with double-entry bookkeeping: A U.S. resident purchases a $1,000 foreign stock.
What is the net effect of transactions (a) and (b) on the U.S. balance of payments if they occur during the same year?
What is the most important use of the statement of the international investment position of a nation?
Draw a hypothetical production frontier for a developing nation exhibiting increasing costs. Have the horizontal axis measure primary commodities?
Has globalization increased or reduced world poverty? What is the World Bank agenda for reducing world poverty?
How do developing countries propose to resolve the major problems that they face today? What are the prospects of resolving them in the near future?
Which region of the world has the largest concentration of poorest countries? Why are these countries so poor?
What has been the experience with import substitution during the past decades? What has this experience led to?
Why do developing nations want to industrialize? What is meant by import substitution? by export-oriented policies?
Why do developing nations want them? What is meant by buffer stocks, export controls, and purchasing agreements? Can you give an example of each?
What is export instability? What are the alleged causes and effects of export instability on economic development?
What conclusions can be reached on the basis of the many empirical studies conducted as to the movement of the commodity and income terms.
What are the motives for the international migration of workers? What is the effect of labor migration on real wages, total output and the relative share.
How have host countries attempted to limit the alleged harmful effects and increase the beneficial effects of multinational corporations?