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  • Catalyst for Change

    by Christian Gonzales, Kalpana Kochhar, Monique Newiak, Tilek Zeinullayev ...
    This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of income inequality. The study analyzes gender inequality by using and extending the United Nation’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) to cover two decades for almost 140 countries,. The main finding is that an increase in the GII from perfect gender equality ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Navigating Economic Storms and Emerging from Fragility

    Lessons from Sierra Leone

    Edited by Rosalind Mowatt, Monique Newiak, Sukhwinder Singh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Sub-Saharan Africa faces a constellation of economic and geopolitical headwinds. Many economies in the region are fragile, and many are still developing the capacity to respond adequately to frequent shocks and policy challenges. Despite the region’s significant potential, its future remains uncertain due to external conflicts and increasing climate-related shocks. Megatrends such as global ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Fair Play:

    More Equal Laws Boost Female Labor Force Participation

    by Christian Mr. Gonzales, Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Ms. Kochhar, Monique Ms. Newiak ...
    Series Book 15 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    This Staff Discussion Note examines the effect of gender-based legal restrictions and other policy choices and demographic characteristics on female labor force participation. Drawing on a large and novel panel data set of gender-related legal restrictions, the study finds that restrictions on women’s rights to inheritance and property, as well as legal impediments to undertaking economic ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Women, Work, and the Economy: Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity

    by Benedict J. Mr. Clements, Katrin Ms. Elborgh-Woytek, Monique Ms. Newiak, Kalpana Ms. Kochhar, Stefania Ms. Fabrizio, Kangni Kpodar, Philippe Mr. Wingender, Gerd Mr. Schwartz ...
    Series Book 13 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of womens participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. Building on earlier Fund analysis, work undertaken by other organizations and academic research, the SDN presents possible policies to overcome these obstacles in different types of countries. ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

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    Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were staunch opponents of a national bank. When President Jackson let the charter of the second bank lapse after 20 years it left the nation unprepared and powerless to respond quickly or effectively to major economic declines or emergencies. J. Pierpont Morgan became America's central bank initiating monetary policies that saved the nation from a severe ... Read more

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  • Economics

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    by Partha Dasgupta ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

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  • Naked Money

    A Revealing Look at Our Financial System

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    Charles Wheelan’s wonderfully whimsical, best-selling Naked series tackles the weird, surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume ... Read more

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  • The Production of Money

    How to Break the Power of Bankers

    by Ann Pettifor ...
    What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production and restrain the out-of-control finance sector so that it serves the ... Read more

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  • Of Money

    by David Hume ...
    David Hume (7 May 1711 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist. ... Read more

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  • Why Iceland? : How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty

    How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty

    by Asgeir Jonsson ...
    As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland’s economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry. By the end of the century, however, it had transformed itself into a major player in world finance, building an international banking empire worth twelve times its GDP. The tiny island nation of 300,000 was one of the global economy’s great success stories.And then everything came ... Read more

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class (Annotated)

    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism. It suggests that the social strata and the division of labor of the feudal period continued into the modern era. The lords of the manor employed themselves in the economically ... Read more

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  • Economics of the 1%

    by John F. Weeks ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development
    How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the ‘experts’, when they themselves are perfectly capable of understanding it. This book explains that mainstream economics serves the interests of the rich through its logical inconsistency ... Read more

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