Because two disparate clients demand loyalty from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these government-sponsored entities must fulfill two ultimately irreconcilable roles.

The author concludes that fiscal policy is a more potent countercyclival tool than monetary policy under flexible exchange rates.

The present paper was prepared by Ms. Willene Johnson, member of the Committee for Development Committee, as a background paper for deliberations by the Committee at its eighth session. This study reviews policy efforts to advance growth and development in the least developed countries, in...

The Family and Medical Leave Act provides job-protected, unpaid leave to employees in firms with 50 or more employees. However, coverage and eligibility restrictions result in 49.3 million employees (44.1 percent) in the private sector being ineligible for leave in 2012. This paper looks at...

Since the onset of the crisis in the euro area, the EU has implemented a series of measures to respond to the major economic challenges and support the efforts to boost growth and create jobs in the Member States. In October 2012, EU leaders have decided that in order to overcome the challenges...

Access and absorption of structural funds is the biggest challenge for public administration for business and nongovernmental sector. European integration itself depends on the optimization and efficient absorption of substantial funds for Romania. The main obstacles faced by new EU members,...

The monograph is based on the complex analysis of regional conditions of development of trade and purchasing activity in the region. Research opens the most actual aspects of functioning and mall development in the region, including: concept and essence of trade and its place and role of...

Methodological aspects of the organization of activity of industrial and production business are considered and modern models, methods of the intensive mechanism of management by the industrial enterprise in modern conditions are generalized.

The article consecrated to the problem of municipalities financial security; conducted analysis of the local budgets formation and development income, intergovernmental fiscal relations of local budgets