This study aims to build on the findings from the previously mentioned studies, and seeks to provide more detailed information on the costs of the various functions and categories of expenditure involved in the establishment and operation of system for the prevention and control of emerging...

Mit seinen Veröffentlichungen in den Medien, seinen RWI : Positionen und der Mitwirkung an der vom Bundesministerium der Wirtschaft und Technologie in Auftrag gegebenen Gemeinschaftsdiagnose hat das Institut nach Kräften dazu beizutragen versucht, auch außerhalb der engen Fachwelt Licht in...

The overall impact of financial globalization on the domestic financial sector is profound. Liberalization of capital flows has effectively made domestic financial repression obsolete. The consequences have not been uniformly favorable. Following liberalization, domestic interest rates in...

The national accounts are the single most important source of information about the economy, and are widely used in all countries to assess economic performance and for policy analysis. However, the national accounts have a number of well-known shortcomings when it comes to treatment of the...

The five main lessons for Southern Africa from our review of the experiencewith cross-border power trading in other regions of the work are that: Security of supply concerns need to be explicitly addressed and understood by the parties to proposed cross-border transactions. Regional entities...