The Corporate, Real Estate, Household, Government and Non-Bank Financial Sectors Under Financial Stabilityundertakes a systematic approach to provide a complete analysis and risk assessment of each of these sectors which interact closely to financial stability.

The Yugoslavian economic system, combining, as it does, elements of Marxist socialism with many aspects of free enterprise, represents a challenging experiment which is being closely watched by students of economic and political theory. The system has att

There are many things North Americans take for granted - including a robust economy. But the past fifteen years have seen persistent stagnation that threatens the results of fifty years of previous growth. Without letting rising consumer debt cloud the question, Michael Hlinka diagnoses Canada's...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- PART I | INTRODUCTION -- 1 | The Growing Importance of Frontier and Developing Asia -- 2 | Lessons for Frontier Economies from the Recent Experience of Emerging Markets -- PART II | TRANSFORMING...

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' paradigm of the "virtual economy" has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is...

Intro -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE Local Practices -- 2 The Setting -- 3 Cooperation and Control in the Peasant Community -- 4 Rules, Self-Interest, and Strategies -- 5 Tax Collection -- 6 Land and Tax Administration -- PART TWO New Changes after 1900...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Keynote addresses -- China: Moving towards the twenty-first century -- Rong Yiren -- China in the twenty-first century -- Helmut Schmidt -- I Economy -- 1 History, politics, and the sources of economic growth: China and the East Asian way of growth -- Dwight H....

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Three Puzzles -- Summary of Findings -- PART 1 The "Arab Inequality" Puzzle -- 1 Economic Inequality: Measurement and Biases -- Introduction -- Income...