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  • Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique

    by Shanaka Peiris, Jean Mr. Clément ...
    Mozambique is an economic success story in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its remarkable achievements offer valuable lessons to other low-income countries in a post-stabilization economic phase, including how they can efficiently manage a scaling up of foreign aid aimed at poverty reduction. Of special interest to other sub-Saharan countries are the book's discussions of Mozambique's progress toward ... 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

  • 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

  • Equity and Efficiency in the Reform of Price Subsidies: A Guide for Policymakers

    by Juan Mr. Cordoba, Robert Mr. Gillingham, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta, Ali Mr. Mansoor, Christian Mr. Schiller, Marijn Verhoeven ...
    This text provides guidance to policymakers on how to design and implement sound price-subsidy reforms. It draws on the experience of price-subsidy reform in 28 countries. The authors discuss economic and political considerations and make several recommendations concerning the speed of reform and social protection mechanisms. They discuss how the social impact of reform can be limited by ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Switzerland's Role as an International Financial Center

    by Benedicte Ms. Christensen ...
    Series Book 45 - Occasional Papers
    This paper was prepared by Benedicte Vibe Christensen in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund under the direction of Gyorgy Szapary. It describes developments in international financial transactions conducted through the Swiss banking system until December 1985. ... Read more

    $3.75 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

  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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  • 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

  • New Partnership for Africa's Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Poverty

    by Saleh Mr. Nsouli ...
    Adopted in 2001, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) represents a new vision to place African countries on a path toward poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and full integration in the world economy. This conference volume includes papers selected from a high-level seminar in December 2002 held in Dakar, Senegal, organized by the IMF Institute in the context of the program of ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Public Finance For Poverty Reduction: Concepts And Case Studies From Africa And Latin America

    by World Bank ...
    This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrate how these concepts are applied in practice and the implementation issues that emerge. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Currency Convertibility and the Transformation of Centrally Planned Economies

    by Joshua Mr. Greene, Peter Mr. Isard ...
    Series Book 81 - Occasional Papers
    This paper examines the problems in establishing currency convertibility- and the optimal timing- in formerly planned economies making the transition to market-oriented systems. ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • The Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Richard Clarida, Mark Taylor ...
    The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world’s economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching. This book brings together a range of applied studies, covering a range of international and regional experience in the area of finance in the context of the global downturn.The volume includes an exploration of the impact of the crisis on capital markets, and how ... Read more

    $63.99 USD