1. Brief history of debt management until 1989 -- 2. Brief history of debt management after 1989 -- 3. In quest of solutions : sovereign insolvency proposals, collective action clauses and recent country cases -- 4. Gleneagles, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and the US crisis -- 5. The...

1. Introduction and overview : the purposes and operations of the IMF -- 2. IMF Quotas -- 3. The IMF's lending facilities -- 4. Aggregate IMF lending -- 5. Participation in IMF programmes -- 6. The implementation of IMF programmes -- 7. The effects of IMF programmes on economic growth -- 8. IMF...

This book studies the impact of Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme (ERSAP), the effects of which have been of great interest to the international community. Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF uphold the programme as a success story and example for other...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. James E. Meade (1958), 'Is the National Debt a Burden?', Oxford Economic Papers, 10 (2), June, 163-83 -- 2. Franco Modigliani (1961), 'Long-Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt', Economic Journal, 71...

Contents: Preface -- Part I: Public debt and individual rationality -- 1. De Viti de Marco vs. Ricardo on public debt: self-extinction or default? / Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner -- 2. Governing the market for sovereign bailouts / Karsten Mause -- 3. Political obligations: is debt...

Is the international financial architecture debate over? Not according to leading experts gathered together in this impressive volume who try to identify the key trends that will fashion the international financial system in the years ahead. As history has shown, the evolution of the...

1. Agency / Edward J. McKenna and Diane C. Zannoni -- 2. Australia / J.E. King -- 3. Austrian school of economics / Stephen D. Parsons -- 4. Babylonian mode of thought / Sheila C. Dow -- 5. Balance-of-payments-constrained economic growth / John S.L. McCombie -- 6. Banking / Gillian Hewitson --...

1. Why leadership? -- 2. Questioning leadership knowledge -- 3. The classical Greek truth about leadership -- 4. The 16th century European truth about leadership -- 5. The foundations of leadership 'science': Carlyle and the trait theorists -- 6. Our modern era of leadership 'science' -- 7....

Ronald H. Coase, one of the most innovative and provocative economists of the twentieth century, has had a lasting influence in economics, law and economics, organization theory, management and political science. In this comprehensive Companion, 31 leading economists, social scientists and legal...

Introduction -- 1. Antiquity / Bertram Schefold -- 2. Economic Thought in Scholasticism / Irina Chaplygina and André Lapidus -- 3. Cameralism / Keith Tribe -- 4. Mercantilism and the Science of Trade / Thierry Demals -- 5. French Enlightenment / Thierry Demals and Gilbert Faccarello -- 6....