This working paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework for sub-Saharan African countries. The paper presents an overview of inflation targeting, reviews the justification for the regime, and summarizes some major critiques.Monetary...

1. The radical potential of human rights -- 2. The human rights framework and economic policy -- 3. What does inequality have to do with human rights? -- 4. A human rights approach to government spending and taxation -- 5. Mobilizing resources to realize rights : debt, aid, and monetary policy...

The institutional setting of subcontracted manufacturing has a profound impact on how the benefits of trade are distributed. This paper develops a model that combines insights from unequal exchange theorists and global commodity chain analysis to clarify the distributive dynamics of production...

Argues that the current contributions of the Madagascar financial system to generating investment, employment and incomes in the Madagascar economy is inadequate and suggests policy and structural transformations that can be initiated to greatly improve the macroeconomic context for labour...

Minnesota Rural Real Estate Market in 1991