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  • Enhancing Development Assistance to Africa: Lessons from Scaling-Up Scenarios (EPub)

    by Matthew Gaertner, Laure Ms. Redifer, Pedro Conceição, Rafael Portillo, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Jan Gottschalk, Andrew Mr. Berg, Ayodele Odusola, Brett Mr. House, José Saúl Mr. Lizondo ...
    The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General, designated 10 countries for pilot studies to investigate how existing national development plans would ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo ...
    Series series Africa: Policies for Prosperity
    Low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa present unique monetary policy challenges, from the high share of volatile food in consumption to underdeveloped financial markets; however most academic and policy work on monetary policy is aimed at much richer countries. Can economic models and methods invented for rich countries even be adapted and applied here? How does and should monetary policy ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Suriname: Toward Stability and Growth

    by Masahiro Nozaki, Tobias Mr. Roy, Pawel Mr. Dyczewski, Bernhard Mr. Fritz-Krockow, Mariana Ms. Torres-Gavela, Gamal Zaki Dr. El-Masry, Rafael Mr. Portillo ...
    Series Book 09 - Departmental Papers / Policy Papers

    $10.29 USD

  • The International Financial Crisis and Global Recession: Impact on the CEMAC Region and Policy Considerations

    by Dimitre Milkov, Rafael Mr. Portillo, Plamen Iossifov, John Mr. Wakeman-Linn ...
    Series Book 2009 - IMF Staff Position Notes

    $4.49 USD

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  • Mauritius: Challenges of Sustained Growth

    by James Mr. Yao, Gamal Zaki Dr. El-Masry, Padamja Khandelwal, Emilio Mr. Sacerdoti ...
    Mauritius has achieved remarkable success since its independence in 1968. It has one of the highest per capita GDPs in Africa, the economy has diversified from complete dependence on the sugar crop, into textiles, then tourism, and recently information and communication services. This paper examines the factors that have contributed to this impressive growth, including macroeconomic stability, a ... Read more

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  • Economic Adjustment in Low-Income Countries: Experience Under the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility

    by F. Mr. Rozwadowski, Siddharth Mr. Timari, David Mr. Robinson, Susan Ms. Schadler ...
    Series Book 106 - Occasional Papers
    This paper evaluates progress made under ESAF-supported programs in attaining external viability, restoring economic growth, and implementing structural reforms. Performance is evaluated for 19 countries that entered ESAF arrangements by mid-1992, against the background of their initial conditions, external environment, and implementation of structural and macroeconomic policies. ... Read more

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  • Essays on the Great Depression

    by Ben S. Bernanke ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effectsAs chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing ... Read more

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  • The New Depression

    The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy

    by Richard Duncan ...
    Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop itWhen the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape. Economic growth ceased to be driven by capital accumulation and investment as it had been since ... Read more

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  • Understanding Government Finance

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    The government budget is not like a household budget. This report introduces the financial operations used by a central government with a free-floating currency, and explains how they differ from that of a household or corporation. The focus is on what constraints such a government faces, and explains why such governments only face a limited risk of involuntary default.It introduces a simplified ... Read more

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  • The Dollar Crisis

    Causes, Consequences, Cures

    by Richard Duncan ...
    In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:Part One describes how the US ... Read more

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  • First Principles

    Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity

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    Leading economist John B. Taylor’s straightforward plan to rebuild America’s economic future by returning to its founding principles.Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread unemployment to the government’s ballooning debt. These assaults on our prosperity reflect the unintended consequences of ... Read more

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