Preface / James K. Galbraith -- Introduction: financial development : the sword of damocles hanging over the process of economic development / Faruk Ülgen -- Financial liberalization, crises and policy implications / Philip Arestis -- Global financing: a bad medicine for developing countries /...

This publication is a first response of the OECD to the issue of what role is, or can be, assigned to SOEs as part of national development strategies. The first part of the publication overviews the experiences of five countries (Brazil, China, India, Singapore and South Africa) with using SOEs,...

Emerging countries in many cases are more crisis-prone than highly developed industrialized countries. This is in many cases due to a weak or volatile financial sector. The best policy to strengthen crisis resistance is the building up of a sound financial position. A sound financial position of...