This book, edited by Tony Killick, consists of papers presented at a seminar sponsored jointly by the IMF and the Overseas Development Institute, held in London, England, to discuss the problems facing the developing world in a global environment of high inflation rates and large payments imbalances

The IMF has had extensive involvement in the stress testing of financial systems in its member countries. This book presents the methods and models that have been developed by IMF staff over the years and that can be applied to the gamut of financial systems. An added resource for readers is the...

Die Steuerreformen in den Transformationsländern Osteuropas wurden von wirtschaftlichen Beratern mitgestaltet. Bedeutsam ist die steuerpolitische Beratung des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF). Der Verfasser wirft grundsätzliche Fragen auf.

This paper describes the essence of the Bretton Woods conference. The Bretton Woods conference was one of a number of inter-allied conferences in the later part of World War II that led to the creation of a new international organization. The point of this paper is not to defend the Bretton...