operational issues. An Appendix describes in detail some of the features of index-linked securities. An earlier Handbook (No.5 The … management of government debt, see Related Links) discussed the relative merits of fixed and floating interest securities, but … covered indexed securities only briefly. This handbook is also available in Russian and Spanish. …

government securities markets. It sets out the advantages of primary dealer systems to the authorities running these markets … financial intermediaries in money markets, as opposed to securities markets, although, particularly in a developing market …