Flows to Chile doubled.

Flows to Central Asia and West Asia went up as a result of higher oil investment, while flows to the Pacific subregion increased marginally.

(iii) A substantial increase in financial flows to the countries of the region

22. While flows from private sources to developing countries had increased significantly, the distribution of those flows had remained highly uneven.

In 1995 private capital had accounted for 72 per cent of the total flow of financial resources to the developing countries.

Trends and basic data on financial flows to developing countries.

Trends and basic data on financial flows to developing countries.

Table 1. Aggregate net long term resource flows to low and middle income countries (USD Billions)

20. Within the context of increased financial flows to developing countries and the continuing surge in foreign direct investment, equity and bonds, he noted with optimism the rapid turnaround in private sector financial flows to Mexico and Argentina after the crisis of 1995 and the modest private sector flows to Africa.

Annexes I. Table 1. Aggregate net long term resource flows to

(c) Overall financial flows have expanded by 184 percent in the 1990s, particularly from the private sector, while official financial flows have decreased by 27 percent.

13. Resource flows are analysed in this section under two main concepts aggregate net resource flows and net resource transfers.6

Investment and private flows

A rapidly growing second source of financing was external private financial flows, and the international community was faced with the challenge of finding ways to ensure that a larger portion of such flows went to the poorest countries.

He noted with satisfaction that there had been some increase in private financial flows to Africa over the past two years, but they remained woefully inadequate.

All appropriate institutions should make every effort to ensure an adequate net flow of financial resources to developing countries.

Suspect flows of funds to foundations and non profit organisations are actively identified by the Unusual Transactions Disclosures Office.

Aggregate net resource flows

Working capital shall be provided from the cash resources of the Fund account.

Promoting investment and private flows

C. General Investment trends and financial flows

Cash flows from investing and financing activities

Among the information to be presented will be an overview of financial flows between countries, with a focus on the flows from developed countries to developing countries and to countries with economies in transition.

Although long term private financing, particularly in the form of foreign direct investment, largely maintained its pace and direction in 1997, short term financial flows exhibited violent moves.

G. Liquidity available cash versus liabilities

88. Very few developing countries had benefited from the net transfer of resources and the funds that were available came from very unpredictable private sources which were affected by fluctuations in exchange and interest rates in their countries of origin.

A major constraint to the implementation of the New Agenda is the inadequacy of financial resource flows to the continent.

Trade, investment and private flows

Policy makers were reminded that they need to be concerned not only with the overall size of financial transfers but also with the composition of flows since some flows are more likely to be sustained than others.

FDI represents a highly significant level of financial flows from developed to developing countries.

8. The liberalization of cross border flows had led to the internationalization of investments by institutional funds.

Rather, they were the gross flows of finance from the US to Europe that allowed European banks to leverage their balance sheets, and the large, matching flows of money from European banks into toxic US subprime linked securities. Both critics and defenders of global imbalances almost entirely overlooked these gross flows in both directions across the North Atlantic.

There must be a flow of financing for development.

Payment for debt servicing represents a negative flow of resources.

Overall level of financial flows

Private capital, driven by interest, tended to flow to areas that would guarantee short term returns.

the Development Cooperation Report which provides a detailed picture of resource flows to individual developing countries

27. There are three main categories of private resource flow loans, foreign direct investment (FDI), and portfolio equity investment.

There was the view that, in capital markets, long term flows should be liberalized before short term ones.

Fostering an enabling environment for development financial flows, including capital flows investment trade

However, these flows tend to be more volatile than official flows and pro cyclical.

Paragraph 4 of resolution 1526 (2004) cutting the flow of funds to listed individuals and entities

Why Capital Flows Uphill

III. Trends in resource flows

B. Private flows