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Mr. Barry J. Eichengreen https://isni.org/isni/0000000404811396 International Monetary Fund

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Statistics Department

Contents

  • Abstract

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Facts about Capital Flows

  • III. Facts about Inequality

  • IV. Probing Deeper

    • 4.1. Foreign Direct Investment

    • 4.2. Non-FDI Private Capital Flows

    • 4.3. Official Capital Flows

    • 4.4. Remittances

  • V. The Case of Mexico

  • VI. Policy Implications

  • References

  • Figures

  • Figure 1. Capital Account Openness and Financial Integration

  • Figure 2. External Debt Securities

  • Figure 3. Trends in Remittances

  • Figure 4. Financial Globalization and Inequality

  • Figure 5. Openness to FDI, Inequality

  • Figure 6. Outward FDI and Labor Income Share, Advanced Economies

  • Figure 7. Inward FDI, Education and Inequality, Emerging and Low-Income Developing Countries

  • Figure 8. Capital Account Liberalization, Crises, and Inequality

  • Figure 9. Mexico: Income Inequality and External Liabilities, 1970–2015

  • Figure 10. Mexico: Income Inequality, by States

  • Figure 11. Mexico: Income Inequality and FDI, by States

  • Figure 12. Mexico: Remittances and Income Inequality

  • Figure 13. Capital Account Liberalization, and Gross and Net Income Inequality

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Financial Globalization and Inequality: Capital Flows as a Two-Edged Sword
Author:
Mr. Barry J. Eichengreen
,
Mr. Balazs Csonto
,
Ms. Asmaa A ElGanainy
, and
Zsoka Koczan