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“daniel mr leigh”

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  • Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries of the European Union

    by Abdul Mr. Abiad, Ashoka Mr. Mody, Susan Ms. Schadler, Daniel Mr. Leigh ...
    Series Book 252 - Occasional Papers
    The central challenges facing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia as they work to catch up to advanced European Union (EU) income levels are discussed in this new book. Focusing on the region’s growth performance, and outlining two growth scenarios that illustrate the range of investment and productivity growth rates under the income catchup ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Follow the Money

    Where is Alberta's Wealth Going?

    by Kevin Taft, PhD, Mel McMillan, PhD, Junaid Jahangir, PhD ...
    Alberta’s most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft, together with economists Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, follows the money to uncover why Alberta — one of the richest places on earth — still talks poor when it comes to public services.Do we really spend more than we can afford, more than we can sustain, on health care? On education? Why doesn’t ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Playing with Fire

    Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South

    by Yilmaz Akyüz ...
    Series series Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets as well as for their residents to borrow and invest in international financial markets. Despite recurrent crises, liberalization has continued and in fact accelerated in the new millennium. Integration ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    by Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster ...
    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Optimal Redistributive Taxation

    by Matti Tuomala ...
    Tax systems raise large amounts of revenue for funding public sector's activities, and tax/transfer policy, together with public provision of education, health care, and social services, play a crucial role in treating the symptoms and the causes of poverty. The normative analysis is crucial for tax/transfer design because it makes it possible to assess separately how changes in the redistributive ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Sovereign Debt Structure for Crisis Prevention

    by Eduardo Mr. Borensztein, Olivier Mr. Jeanne, Paolo Mr. Mauro, Jeromin Mr. Zettelmeyer, Marcos Mr. Chamon ...
    Series Book 237 - Occasional Papers
    The debate on government debt in the context of possible reforms of the international financial architecture has thus far focused on crisis resolution. This paper seeks to broaden this debate. It asks how government debt could be structured to pursue other objectives, including crisis prevention, international risk-sharing, and facilitating the adjustment of fiscal variables to changes in domestic ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • The New Dynamic Public Finance

    by Narayana R. Kocherlakota ...
    Series series The Toulouse Lectures in Economics
    Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this question either ignored people's uncertainty about their future productivities or imposed strong ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Greek Endgame

    From Austerity to Growth or Grexit

    by Nicos Christodoulakis ...
    The book explores in depth both the origins of the Greek debt crisis and the conditions under which the economy might be turned around from its current malaise. Greek debt turned explosive after the 2008 global crisis, through a combination of a fiscal spree and domestic policy complacency, but the unpreparedness and indecision of the European Union intensified the problem of liquidity and a ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization

    The Brazilian Paradox

    by Lena Lavinas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015. It examines how the emergence of a mass consumer society proved insufficient, not only to overcome underdevelopment, but also to consolidate the comprehensive social protection system inherited from Brazil’s 1988 Constitution. By juxtaposing ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Gambia: Economic Adjustment in a Small Open Economy

    by Eric Mr. Verreydt, Michael Mr. Hadjimichael, Thomas Mr. Rumbaugh ...
    Series Book 100 - Occasional Papers
    The Gambia, one of the least developed countries in Africa, has been pursuing corrective economic policies since 1985, aimed at restroing financial stability and laying the basis for strong and sustainable economic growth. Supported by IMF policy advice and financing. The Gambia's economic performance has improved considerably since 1985. This study discusses Gambian adjustment policies and their ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Coordinating Public Debt and Monetary Management

    by International Monetary Fund ...
    Edited by V. Sundararajan, Peter Dattels, and Hans Blommestein, this volume outlines strategies for managing public debt, developing government securities markets, and coordinating those activities with monetary management through legal, administrative, and operational arrangements. Both transition and market economies are surveyed. The analysis draws partly on the literature on the microstructure ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Public Sector Enterprises in India

    The Impact of Disinvestment and Self Obligation on Financial Performance

    by P.K. Jain, Seema Gupta, Surendra S. Yadav ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book examines the various aspects of non-financial central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India, for a period from 1986-87 to 2010-11. The analysis is based on all the key financial ratios; namely, profitability, efficiency, liquidity, leverage and productivity.Liberalization and globalization have caused competition in India and have lowered the profit margins. At the same time, Indian ... Read more

    $89.09 USD