capital inflow
noun[CorU]
ukusECONOMICS,FINANCE
theamountofmoneythat comes into a country'seconomyfrom othercountrieswithin aparticularperiodoftime:
In the first sixmonthsof thisyear,netprivatecapitalinflowinto thecountrywas $67.1billion.
Examplesofcapital inflow
capital inflow
As mentioned above, the undervalued yuan attracts a large amount of foreigncapitalinflow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the face of large netcapitalinflow, those countries would intervene in the foreign exchange market to prevent exchange rate appreciation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The purges, however, left the economy in a truly disastrous state whereby a lack ofcapitalinflowdoomed the building projects that were underway.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the net capital outflow is negative, the economy is experiencing acapitalinflow: investment exceeds saving, and the economy is financing this extra investment by borrowing from abroad.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Asia had begun to attract nearly half of the totalcapitalinflowfrom developing countries, appealed by the high interest rates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With newcapitalinflow, his business prospers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In that context,capitalinflowepisodes do not necessarily generate efficient solutions, but at least do not generate catastrophes, while inflows last.
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On the whole, foreigncapitalinflowinto the country was extremely low.
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As a result, those forces that could cause acapitalinflowwill be much stronger than in the case of the partial easing undertaken in the 2000/01 period.
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No one seems able to say just how large is thiscapitalinflow.
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