Economists increasingly agree on the nature of the development and social policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. A similar convergence is nowhere in sight in the case of macroeconomic policies. Disagreements in this area remain significant, exacerbated by rising financial...

The deregulation of domestic financial markets and the capital account in developing countries has frequently been associated with financial turmoil and macro volatility. The book analyzes the experiences of several countries, drawing implications for building development-friendly domestic and...

Among the factors that determine countries' macroeconomic performance and outlook, climate change has, since the 1990s, progressively gained significant prominence in national and global public policy discussions, and consequently also in macroeconomic policy analysis. This paper discusses the...