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After a massive international campaign calling attention to the development impact of foreign debt, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is now underway. But will the HIPC Initiative meet its high expectations? Will debt relief substantially raise growth? How do we make sure...
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This book analyzes the new trends in capital flows to emerging markets since the Asian crisis, their determinants and policy implications. It explains why such flows have declined so dramatically in recent years, emphasising both structural and cyclical factors. Senior bankers, regulators, and...
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This book offers a concise but thorough analysis of the International Monetary Fund reform debate. Since the advent of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, a lengthy deliberation has ensued over whether the IMF should be reformed, abolished, or left as is. The authors approach this...
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Introduction -- Determinants of Institutional Quality: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Economic Growth: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- IMF Programmes and Institutional Quality Determinants: Economic Scenarios in...
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Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments
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Colo-nies Became the World Economic Locomotives -- Afterword. The Great Convergence and Possible Increase in Global … Instability, or the World without an Absolute Leader. …This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing …
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the structural constraints and imbalances underpinning such global problems, the world economy is doomed to experience an …
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This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...
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This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual...
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This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training -...
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