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Sovereign wealth funds : threat or salvation? /
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Threat or Salvation? Neither. How long have these large pools of government-owned or-controlled funds existed? More than five decades. How are they financed? Predominantly, but not exclusively, from excess accumulations of foreign exchange reserves, often derived from the exp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Peterson Institute for International Economics,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sovereign Wealth Funds: Threat or Salvation? Neither. How long have these large pools of government-owned or-controlled funds existed? More than five decades. How are they financed? Predominantly, but not exclusively, from excess accumulations of foreign exchange reserves, often derived from the export of natural resources. What issues do SWFs raise? Multiple concerns about globalization and the role of governments in today's world. What is needed to make the world safer for these funds? A quantum leap in their accountability and transparency according to the SWF scoreboard. Has progress been made over the past several years? Yes and the Santiago Principles are a good start, but countries that host SWF investments have been slow to reciprocate with more openness to foreign investment. How do SWFs fit into the international financial system of the 21st century? Awkwardly and, potentially, contentiously. This study by one of the pioneers of independent, policy-oriented research on sovereign wealth funds elaborates on these questions and answers. "Dr. Truman is a distinguished scholar who has been analyzing sovereign wealth funds for the last several years. His work has been influential in the development of the santiago Principles, a voluntary code of behavior, transparency and accountability adopted by most countries with large sovereign wealth funds. This is an invaluable book for anyone interested in a serious and objective analysis of these funds--their origins, their objectives, their differences across countries, their effects on the global economy, and their consequences for international economic policy."--Laura D'Anderea Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council --Book Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780881325751 0881325759 1282882996 9781282882997 9786612882999 6612882999 |