Only in Spain and Italy of the 22 countries surveyed do a clear majority of people favour free capital movements.
Some restraints on capital movements would have been very useful in protecting countries against the onslaught of the attacking world.
The main alternative to allowing the free flow of capital is to re-introduce some form of exchange controls on capital movements.
Once the case is conceded in one area, capital movements, there is no guarantee that a new line could be held.
Beijing strictly controls cross-border capital movements as part of its effort to preserve savings at home and protect its banking system from external shocks.
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Eight months ago he defied the world's markets by placing controls on Malaysian capital movements, an act that threatened to aggravate the effects of Asia's economic collapse.
In a comment on television that was opaque even by French standards, Lionel Jospin last month hinted at his approval of a tax on cross-border capital movements.
As a foundation for this new world order, Mr Priestland is hoping for a new Bretton Woods-style agreement one that would regulate international capital movements and thus tame the power of the bond markets.
The evidence, from Chile and elsewhere, is that the extent to which such capital movements are destabilising depends largely on the strength of a country's financial system and the soundness of its economic policies on matters, in other words, that are under the control of governments.
The Chinese authorities have substantially reduced the level of official intervention in exchange markets since the third quarter of 2011, and China has taken a series of steps to liberalize controls on capital movements, as part of a broader plan to move to a more flexible exchange rate regime.
One is proprietary trading, in which they bet their own capital on movements in the markets.
The new Tokyo government is hazarding to trigger currency and capital-flow movements that could as easily have harmful effects as helpful ones.
The derivation of this idea starts with the noted sociologist and social movement expert Neil Smelser, who theorized that social movements (and Smelser was really talking about Movements with a capital M, the kind that involve freedom, justice, fairness and the like) come about because of a combination of factors starting with social strain.
Despite being an interesting political capital for political leaders, some of these new populist movements have an element of independence and do not necessarily blindly follow leaders.
The SLA is boycotting the current round of Darfur peace talks being chaired by the Qataris in their capital, Doha, while LJM, a coalition of several minor rebel movements, is the only rebel group attending the talks with representatives from the Sudanese government.
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