Investment and Financing in Developing Countries

The authors of this reader analyze some of the most pressing themes in the complex interlinkage of investment and financing in developing countries. Rasul Shams, Investment, Finance and the New Theories of Economic Growth • Joachim von Stockhausen, Credit for Small Farmers in Developing Countries: A Never Ending Story of Disillusion? • Bernhard Fischer, Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Experiences and Policy Issues • Michael Atkin, Stock Markets in Developing Countries: Finance for Firms or Gambling for Speculators? • Peter Dittus, Finance and Corporate Governance in Eastern Europe • Helmut Reisen, Public Finance in Developing Countries and the Attraction of Foreign Capital • Peter Nunnenkamp, The Return of Foreign Capital to Latin America: Good News from the Reform Front or a Case for Policy Intervention? • Maxwell J. Fry, Foreign Direct Investment, Financing and Growth • Bernhard Fischer, Prerequisites for Financial Opening in Developing Economies – A Microeconomic Perspective.