One—Introduction -- 1. Classicists and Critics -- 2. Neoclassical Trade Models -- 3. Recent Work on Economic Growth -- Two—The Single Country Model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neoclassical Production -- 3. Demand -- 4. Short-Run Equilibrium -- 5. Long-Run Equilibrium -- 6. Comparative Dynamics...

A traditionally conservative country in financial matters, India enacted a series of reforms in response to its balance of payments crisis in the early 1990s. But since then only halting progress has been made, raising concerns about India’s rising fiscal deficit, inefficiencies in its...

The increase in trade, the increasing internationalization of production and the improvements in communications, together with the legalization of foreign currency instruments in a growing number of countries, have led to a de facto liberalization of the capital account. In line with the greater...

This paper analyzes the recent growth of government domestic debt, including central bank debt, using a new data base on government domestic debt in developing countries with large, open financial systems. On average, government domestic debt grew much faster than GDP between 1994 and 2004 and...