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The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen to podcasts given by top IMF economists on important issues in the global...
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The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen to podcasts given by top IMF economists on important issues in the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399743
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen to podcasts given by top IMF economists on important issues in the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399749
'Restoring Hope: Reinvigorating the Millennium Development Goals' assesses how the world is doing in meeting the MDGs … China is taking to improve pensions and health care. People in Economics profiles Maria Ramos, the academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405229
Prize or Penalty: When Sports Help Economies Score"" looks at why countries vie to host the world's most costly … others; how were shocks transmitted round the world, and whether protectionist pressures might intensify in 2010. As usual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406381
This chapter presents the point of view and ideas of Sabina Alkire, an economist. Alkire wants the Multidimensional Poverty Index to be part of a data revolution to guide the fight against poverty. According to Alkire, learning to meditate soothed away what she describes as the temper tantrums...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407775
erratic, inconsistent, and domestically controversial course away from multilateralism. Other countries, meanwhile, for … various reasons are incapable of assuming that global leadership and the rest of the world likely would not support a new … with economic growth, a reduction in poverty, and the absence of destructive trade wars. It built a comity that encourages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408177
The September 2008 issue examines key issues facing low-income countries, including how they should respond to high oil and food prices. Some African economies are now successfully attracting international investors and are seen as a new tier of ""frontier"" emerging markets. Separate articles...
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The June 2008 issue tackles the crisis in financial markets in industrial countries from a number of angles. Articles look at the origins of the crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States and track its spillover into other markets. Then authors examine what can be done to...
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derivatives. Also in this issue, articles examine China's increasing economic engagement with Africa, and the outsourcing of …
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