|**Country**|**Year**<sup>**I/**</sup><br>**O**<br>**T/**<br>**E**|**Type**|**Nature**|**Summary**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|South Africa|2010 O E|CC|Ceilings on foreign<br>investment/ external<br>borrowings|Authorities (i) eliminated the 10 percent levy on the capital that South Africans could transfer upon emigration, (ii) raised the limit on<br>individuals investment offshore to R4 million per year from R4 million in a lifetime, (iii) and raised the single discretionary allowance<br>to R1 million from R750,000|
|South Africa|2010 O E|CC|Exchange Controls|Increased limits to allow different types of institutions to take between 25 and 35percent of assets abroad.|
|South Africa|2010<br>E|CC|Exchange Controls|Authorities allowed qualifying international headquarter companies to raise and deploy capital offshore without exchange control<br>approval|
|Taiwan,<br>China|2010 I<br>T|CM||The rate on reserve requirements for currency deposits will be increased to 0.193 percent from 0.178 percent, while the rate for Taiwan,<br>China dollar time deposits was lifted to 0.934percent from 0.855percent|
|Taiwan,<br>China|2010 I<br>T|CC|Foreign investors'<br>access|Offshore funds restricted to investing no more than 30 percent of their portfolios into local government debt and money-market<br>products.|
|Taiwan,|||||
|China|2010 I<br>T|CC|Exchange controls|Tradingin NDFs capped at one-fifth of a bank's total FX trading|
|Taiwan,<br>China|2010 I<br>T|CC|URR|Monetary authority won‘t pay lenders interest from Jan. 1 on reserves held for deposits from foreigners. It currently pays interest on 55<br>percent of the reserves.|
||||Ceilings on foreign<br>investment/ external||
|Thailand|2010 O E|CC|borrowings|Raised limits on foreign asset accumulation byresidents,includingoutward FDI|
||||Ceilings on foreign<br>investment/ external|Removed limit on direct overseas investment, relaxed restrictions on lending by Thai firms to non-resident borrowers, and raised cap on|
|Thailand|2010 O E|CC|borrowings|<br>offshoreproperty purchase|
|Thailand|2010 O E|CC|Ceilings on foreign<br>investment/ external<br>borrowings|Permitted Thai companies to invest abroad in the form of direct investment or lend to affiliated companies up to USD 50 million per<br>year|
|Thailand|2010 O E|CC|Ceilings on foreign<br>investment/ external<br>borrowings|Relaxed other regulations for Thai residents which include: raising outstanding balance limits on foreign currency deposit accounts<br>deposited with funds exchanged from commercial banks; increasing amount limit for purchase of immovable properties abroad; relaxing<br>regulations on repatriation by raising the threshold amount above which foreign currency proceeds are required to be brought into<br>Thailand,as well as relaxingthe related reportingrequirement|
|Thailand|2010 I<br>T|CC|Tax on Inflows|Withholding tax of 15% to be imposed on interest income and capital gains receivable by non-resident corporate and individual<br>investors on bonds issued bythegovernment,state enterprises and the Bank of Thailand.|
|Turkey|2010 I<br>E|CC|Tax on Inflows|Reduction in withholdingtax rate on bonds issued abroad byTurkish firms with a maturityof over 3years.|

a/See Pasricha (2011) for further analysis and sources. The following abbreviations used: I/O – Inflow/outflow; T/E – Tightening/easing; Type – CC – capital control; CM – Currency based measure; OM – other measure; Source: IMF AREAER 2002 - 2009, Reinhart and Reinhart 2008, national sources and news articles.

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