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Environmental Skepticism

Ecology, Power and Public Life

By: Mr Peter J Jacques

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Environmental Skepticism

Ecology, Power and Public Life

By: Mr Peter J Jacques

Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti-environmental counter-movement. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the US conservative counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability. Specific consideration is given to the threat of the counter-movement to marginalized people of the world and its philosophical implications through its commitment to a 'deep anthropocentrism'.

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1409498980

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Policy Issues in the Evolving International Monetary System

By: Mr.Peter Isard,Mr.Paul R. Masson,Mr.Morris Goldstein,Mr.Mark P. Taylor

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Policy Issues in the Evolving International Monetary System

By: Mr.Peter Isard,Mr.Paul R. Masson,Mr.Morris Goldstein,Mr.Mark P. Taylor

How can international monetary stability be promoted? This study looks at ways to bolster economic policies and coordination among the industrial countries serving as nominal anchors for the world economy. It also assesses the operation of monetary unions and common currency areas. The authors conclude that problems with the world monetary system reflect weaknesses outside the exchange rate arena, and that exchange rate commitements must be tailored to individual country characteristics.

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1557752346

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Tearing Down Walls

The International Monetary Fund 1990-1999

By: Mr.James M. Boughton

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Tearing Down Walls

The International Monetary Fund 1990-1999

By: Mr.James M. Boughton

This volume--the fifth in a series of histories of the International Monetary Fund--examines the 1990s, a tumultuous decade in which the IMF faced difficult challenges and took on new and expanded roles. Among these were assisting countries that had long operated under central planning to manage transitions toward market economies, helping countries in financial crisis after sudden loss of support from private financial markets, adapting surveillance to reflect the growing acceptance of international standards for economic and financial policies, helping low-income countries grow and begin to eradicate poverty while staying within its mandate as a monetary institution, and providing adequate financial assistance to members in an age of limited official resources. The IMF's successes and setbacks in facing these challenges provide valuable lessons for an uncertain future.

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1616350849

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A Model for Financial Programming

By: Mr.Jan Giehm Mikkelsen

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A Model for Financial Programming

By: Mr.Jan Giehm Mikkelsen

This paper presents a simple simulation model that enables the formulation of a consistent growth-oriented, medium-term adjustment program. The applied version is available in Excel (using data for El Salvador) and can be used directly as a financial programming tool that provides a range of standard IMF performance criteria together with a complete set of consistent accounts for the real, monetary, public, and external sectors of the economy. Medium- and long-term growth considerations are incorporated through a neoclassical production function at the same time as monetary and fiscal policies are adjusted to satisfy the requirements for internal and external balance.

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1451850271

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Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries

Some Analytical Issues

By: Mr.Mohsin S. Khan,Mr.Peter Montiel,Bijan B. Aghevli

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Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries

Some Analytical Issues

By: Mr.Mohsin S. Khan,Mr.Peter Montiel,Bijan B. Aghevli

This paper addresses analytical aspects of exchange rate policy and emphasizes the relationship among exchange rate flexibility, financial discipline, and international competitiveness.

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1557752095

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Exchange Rate Assessment

Extension of the Macroeconomic Balance Approach

By: Mr.Hamid Faruqee,Mr.Peter Isard

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Exchange Rate Assessment

Extension of the Macroeconomic Balance Approach

By: Mr.Hamid Faruqee,Mr.Peter Isard

The IMF's internal analysis of exchange rate issues has been guided by, and limited by, the conceptual and empirical frameworks that have emerged from the collective research of the economics profession. The research has provided several general approaches that are useful for assessing whether countries exchange rates seem broadly appropriate. One involves the calculation of purchasing power-party (PPP) measure or international competitiveness indicators. A second, known as the macroeconomic balance framework, focuses on the extent to which prevailing exchange rates and policies are consistent with simultaneous internal and external equilibrium over the medium run. Some recent extensions of the macroeconomic balance approach and the manner in which it is applied by the IMF staff are described in this paper.

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1557757313

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How to Deal with Azerbaijan’s Oil Boom? Policy Strategies in a Resource-Rich Transition Economy

By: Mr.Christoph B. Rosenberg,Mr.Tapio Saavalainen

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How to Deal with Azerbaijan’s Oil Boom? Policy Strategies in a Resource-Rich Transition Economy

By: Mr.Christoph B. Rosenberg,Mr.Tapio Saavalainen

The petroleum-rich former Soviet republics around the Caspian Sea face the dual challenge of managing the transition to a market economy and a booming resource sector. This paper examines this challenge with particular reference to Azerbaijan. The standard “Dutch disease” model is modified to capture the special conditions of transition economies, with specific attention to the pattern of real exchange rate movement. “Transition factors” are found to add to the speed of real appreciation. Non-oil sectors may suffer, but less through the real appreciation than through transition-specific structural problems. The paper describes a medium-term policy strategy for Azerbaijan, relating its prospects to the experience in the 1970s of Ecuador, Indonesia, and Nigeria. The adverse effects of the Dutch disease may be avoided if Azerbaijan pursues policies to promote savings and open trade, and strengthens the supply side through structural policies.

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1451929161

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 2

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 2

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood

This paper examines sources of economic growth in East Asia. The conventional growth-accounting approach to estimating the sources of economic growth requires unrealistically strong assumptions about either competitiveness of factor markets or the form of the underlying aggregate production function. The paper outlines a new approach utilizing nonparametric derivative estimation techniques that does not require imposing these restrictive assumptions. The results for East Asian countries show that output elasticities of capital and labor tend to be different from the income shares of these factors. The paper also explores the compensating potential of private intergenerational transfers.

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1589062027

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The Unique Nature of the Responsibilities of the International Monetary Fund

By: Mr.Manuel Guitián

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The Unique Nature of the Responsibilities of the International Monetary Fund

By: Mr.Manuel Guitián

Bretton Woods constituted the first formal international agreement on a code of conduct applicable for economic transactions among countries that had subscribed to it. This pamphlet focuses on only one aspect of that code of conduct: the norms that have guided the conduct of financial and exchange transactions among countries, as they have been presented in the original Articles of Agreement of the IMF and their subsequent amendments. The paper outlines the fundamental characteristics of the IMF, examines the direct link between surveillance and conditionalilty, explores potential risks and dangers that might compromise certain fundamental features of the institution, and presents a set of ideas and proposals to ensure the activities of the IMF maintain continuity of its institutional uniqueness.

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1557752281

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Per Jacobsson Lecture

Latin America: Outlook and Challenges Ahead

By: Ms.Carmen Reinhart,Mr.Rodrigo O. Valdes

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Per Jacobsson Lecture

Latin America: Outlook and Challenges Ahead

By: Ms.Carmen Reinhart,Mr.Rodrigo O. Valdes

Latin America: Outlook and Challenges Ahead

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148432093X

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Exchange Rates and Economic Fundamentals

A Framework for Analysis

By: Mr.Tamim Bayoumi,Mr.Peter B. Clark,Mr.Steven A. Symansky,Mr.Leonardo Bartolini

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Exchange Rates and Economic Fundamentals

A Framework for Analysis

By: Mr.Tamim Bayoumi,Mr.Peter B. Clark,Mr.Steven A. Symansky,Mr.Leonardo Bartolini

This paper summarizes the methods and types of indicators that are often employed, both insid and outside the IMF, to assess whether exchange rates are broadly in line with economic fundamentals.

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1557754519

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International Economic Policy Review, Volume 1

By: Mr.Paul R Masson,Mr.Timothy D. Lane,Ms.Padma Gotur

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International Economic Policy Review, Volume 1

By: Mr.Paul R Masson,Mr.Timothy D. Lane,Ms.Padma Gotur

This series aims to make available to the general public and to economic policy practitioners, a selection of policy papers prepared by the staff of the International Monetary Fund. Papers in the International Economic Policy Review will offer specific policy-relevant analysis, but at a relatively non-technical level. These papers are intended to provide analytical background for IMF-supported programs and more generally to shed light on a range of policy choices facing ministries and central banks.

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1557758646

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Credit Supply and Productivity Growth

By: Francesco Manaresi,Mr.Nicola Pierri

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Credit Supply and Productivity Growth

By: Francesco Manaresi,Mr.Nicola Pierri

We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bank database covering all the credit relationships of Italian corporations, together with a natural experiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit availability and to estimate a production model augmented with financial frictions. We find that a contraction in credit supply causes a reduction of firm TFP growth and also harms IT-adoption, innovation, exporting, and adoption of superior management practices, while a credit expansion has limited impact. Quantitatively, the credit contraction between 2007 and 2009 accounts for about a quarter of observed the decline in TFP.

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1498315259

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International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods

By: Mr.Harold James

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International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods

By: Mr.Harold James

This comprehensive history, published jointly by the IMF and Oxford University Press, was written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of international monetary cooperation. From the establishment of the postwar international monetary system in 1944 to how the framework functions in a vastly expanded world economy, historian Harol James describes the tensions, negotiations, challenges, and progress of international monetary cooperation. This narrative offers a global perspective on the events and decisions that have shaped the world economy during the past fifty years.

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International Monetary Fund

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1475506961

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Reassessing the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

By: Christine J. Richmond,Ms.Dora Benedek,Bobana Cegar,Mr.Peter Dohlman,Michelle Hassine,Beata Jajko,Piotr Kopyrski,Maksym Markevych,Mr.Jacques A Miniane,Mr.Francisco J Parodi,Gabor Pula,Mr.James Roaf,Min Kyu Song,Mariya Sviderskaya,Rima Turk,Mr.Sebastian Weber

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Reassessing the Role of State-Owned Enterprises in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

The Central, Eastern, and South Eastern European (CESEE) region is ripe for a reassessment of the role of the state in economic activity. The rapid income convergence with Western Europe of the early 2000s was not always equally shared across society, and it has now slowed dramatically in many countries of the region.

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1498319963

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Inflation, Credibility, and the Role of the International Monetary Fund

By: Mr.Carlo Cottarelli,Curzio Giannini

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Inflation, Credibility, and the Role of the International Monetary Fund

By: Mr.Carlo Cottarelli,Curzio Giannini

This paper argues that many developing countries may find it difficult to buttress disinflation programs purely through the adoption of traditional credibility-enhancing devices (such as monetary anchors and central bank independence), owing to “technical problems” (for example, high instability of money demand, increased capital mobility) and an insufficient endowment of credibility in the political institutions. In these cases, borrowing credibility from an outside agency like the International Monetary Fund may be the most effective solution. The paper discusses the different options that would allow the Fund to support programs aimed not at external adjustment—the Fund’s traditional role—but at disinflation.

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1451969333

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 47, Special Issue, IMF Annual Research Conference,

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood,Mr.Eduardo Borensztein

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 47, Special Issue, IMF Annual Research Conference,

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood,Mr.Eduardo Borensztein

This paper presents a broad overview of postwar analytical thinking on international macroeconomics, culminating in a more detailed discussion of recent progress. The paper reviews important empirical evidence that has inspired alternative modeling approaches, as well as theoretical and policy considerations behind developments in the field. The paper presents an empirical study of fiscal policy in countries with extreme monetary regimes. It also examines members of multilateral currency unions, dollarized countries that officially use the money of another country, and countries using currency boards.

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1451963092

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Strengthening the International Monetary System

Exchange Rates, Surveillance, and Objective Indicators

By: Mr.Morris Goldstein,Mr.Andrew Crockett

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Strengthening the International Monetary System

Exchange Rates, Surveillance, and Objective Indicators

By: Mr.Morris Goldstein,Mr.Andrew Crockett

This report comprises three papers written by staff members of the Fund's Research Department on issues arising out of the reports on the international monetary system prepared in 1985 by the Group of Ten (representing the industrial countries participating in the General Arrangements to Borrow) and the intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs. These two reports, which appear as appendices to this volume, were transmitted to the Interim Committee of the Fund's Board of Governors and were subsequently discussed by the Fund's Executive Board in early 1986.

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0939934760

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Economic Diversification in Developing Countries

Lessons from Country Experiences with Broad-Based and Industrial Policies

By: Ms. Corinne C Delechat,Mr. Giovanni Melina,Ms. Monique Newiak,Mr. Chris Papageorgiou,Mr. Nikola Spatafora

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Economic Diversification in Developing Countries

Lessons from Country Experiences with Broad-Based and Industrial Policies

By: Ms. Corinne C Delechat,Mr. Giovanni Melina,Ms. Monique Newiak,Mr. Chris Papageorgiou,Mr. Nikola Spatafora

This paper examines the significance and impact of broad-based and industrial policies on economic diversification in developing economies, supported by a literature review, case studies, and IMF analyses. Economic diversification entails shifting from traditional sectors, like agriculture and mining, to a variety of high-quality services and sectors. This transition is crucial for adapting to global market fluctuations and promoting sustainable growth and improved living standards. A literature review, including many IMF contributions, reveals a strong correlation between economic diversification and improved macroeconomic performance in developing countries, such as faster economic growth and higher incomes per capita. Factors influencing economic diversification include macroeconomic stability, infrastructure quality, workforce skills, credit access, regulatory environment, and income equality. Six case studies highlight the experiences of Costa Rica, Gabon, Georgia, India, Senegal, and Vietnam, demonstrating that successful diversification strategies require a long-term commitment and effective broad-based policies. Industrial policies can support diversification by addressing market failures, but they must be well-designed and effectively implemented. Common lessons include the necessity of maintaining macroeconomic stability, investing in human capital, and fostering competition. Sector-specific mechanisms like Special Economic Zones should be used cautiously, emphasizing underlying bottlenecks and minimizing fiscal costs. Country-specific insights include Costa Rica's strategic policy shift towards export orientation, Gabon's reduced dependence on oil, Georgia's market-friendly policies, India's skilled labor and software clusters, Senegal's infrastructure and business environment improvements, and Vietnam's transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy. The IMF's engagement in diversification emphasizes improving human capital, infrastructure, reducing trade barriers, and promoting international trade integration. Policymakers, researchers, and international organizations increasingly recognize the importance of economic diversification for resilient, sustainable, and inclusive growth, requiring nuanced policy interventions tailored to each country's context and capabilities.

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Carbon Pricing: What Role for Border Carbon Adjustments?

By: Ian W.H. Parry,Mr. Peter Dohlman,Mr. Cory Hillier,Mr. Martin D Kaufman,Florian Misch,Mr. James Roaf,Mr. Christophe J Waerzeggers,Miss Kyung Kwak

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Carbon Pricing: What Role for Border Carbon Adjustments?

By: Ian W.H. Parry,Mr. Peter Dohlman,Mr. Cory Hillier,Mr. Martin D Kaufman,Florian Misch,Mr. James Roaf,Mr. Christophe J Waerzeggers,Miss Kyung Kwak

This Climate Note discusses the rationale, design, and impacts of border carbon adjustments (BCAs), charges on embodied carbon in imports potentially matched by rebates for embodied carbon in exports. Large disparities in carbon pricing between countries is raising concerns about competitiveness and emissions leakage, and BCAs are a potentially effective instrument for addressing such concerns. Design details are critical, however. For example, limiting coverage of the BCA to energy-intensive, trade-exposed industries facilitates administration, and initially benchmarking BCAs on domestic emissions intensities would help ease the transition for emissions-intensive trading partners. It is also important to consider how to apply BCAs across countries with different approaches to emissions mitigation. BCAs are challenging because they pose legal risks and may be at odds with the differentiated responsibilities of developing countries. Furthermore, BCAs provide only modest incentives for other large emitting countries to scale carbon pricing—an international carbon price floor would be far more effective in this regard.

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1513594540

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Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789

By: Mr Robert Weston

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Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789

By: Mr Robert Weston

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part of the early modern period. It explores how and why changes occurred in the relationships between those who sought and those who provided medical advice. Previous studies of epistolary medical consulting have limited attention to the output of one or two practitioners, but this study uses the consultations of around 100 individual practitioners from the mid-seventeenth century to the time of the Revolution to give a broad picture of patients and physicians perceptions of illnesses and how they should be treated on a day-to-day basis. It makes a unique contribution to the history of medicine, as no other study has been undertaken in the consulting by letter of surgeons, as opposed to physicians. It is shown that the well-known disputation between physicians and surgeons tells only a part of the history; whereas in fact, necessity required that these two 'professions' had to work together for the patients' good.

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1409465004

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Green Outcomes in the Real World

Global Forces, Local Circumstances, and Sustainable Solutions

By: Mr Peter McManners

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Green Outcomes in the Real World

Global Forces, Local Circumstances, and Sustainable Solutions

By: Mr Peter McManners

Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation. Support has also grown for the concept of 'sustainability', meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. But as the Earth's systems come under increasing strain, the inherent conflict between sustainability and globalization has been exposed. Green Outcomes in a Real World examines the shift in thinking required to reconcile these two important areas of policy. In this ground breaking book, Peter McManners has coined the term 'Proximization' to define a new policy framework. The principles of Proximization are: 'sustainability', 'subsidiarity', 'primacy of the state' and 'market economics' and the application of these familiar concepts towards a sustainable globalised world is novel and different. The author argues that adherence to the principles of proximization will return world society to a stable natural order, and will mean changes. Global commodity flows will reduce and barriers to migration will increase. National governments will demand more control over their finances leading to restrictions on capital flows. Indeed, Peter believes that an element of 'selfish determination' is needed. The new world order will be sustainable by design. Global organisations such as the UN, national governments and global corporations will have to understand and apply a different paradigm. The arguments in this book do not reflect the idealism or even naivety of some of the green movement. This book is about hard-edged reality presented by an author with huge experience and a deep understanding of the business perspective. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals involved in setting policy and future direction for businesses, governments, and non-governmental bodies, as well as to those with an academic interest in business, economics, social and environmental issues, and public policy.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409459667

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Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

By: Ziba Farhadian,Mr.Bernard Nivollet,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Peter S. Heller,Mr.Richard Hemming,Mr.Menachem Katz,Ahsan S. Mansur,Mr.Donogh McDonald,Mr.Edgardo Ruggiero,Mr.Peter Kohnert

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Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

By: Ziba Farhadian,Mr.Bernard Nivollet,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Peter S. Heller,Mr.Richard Hemming,Mr.Menachem Katz,Ahsan S. Mansur,Mr.Donogh McDonald,Mr.Edgardo Ruggiero,Mr.Peter Kohnert

Most of the seven major industrial countries are now experiencing significant changes in their demographic structure. A persistent pattern of declining fertility and improving life expectancy has created major segments of the population that are already relatively aged or will become so in the near future. This paper examines the impact of prospective demographic trends on the level and structure of social expenditure by the governments of the seven major industrial countries (the Group of Seven) through the year 2025.

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093993468X

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The Oboe

By: Geoffrey Vernon Burgess,Geoffrey Burgess (oboist.),Bruce Haynes,Instructor of Baroque Oboe Geoffrey Burgess,MR Geoffrey Burgess, Obo

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The Oboe

By: Geoffrey Vernon Burgess,Geoffrey Burgess (oboist.),Bruce Haynes,Instructor of Baroque Oboe Geoffrey Burgess,MR Geoffrey Burgess, Obo

The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the present time, discussing how and why the oboe evolved, what music was written for it, and which players were prominent. Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes begin by describing the oboe’s prehistory and subsequent development out of the shawm in the mid-seventeenth century. They then examine later stages of the instrument, from the classical hautboy to the transition to a keyed oboe and eventually the Conservatoire-system oboe. The authors consider the instrument’s place in Romantic and Modernist music and analyze traditional and avant-garde developments after World War II. Noting the oboe’s appearance in paintings and other iconography, as well as in distinctive musical contexts, they examine what this reveals about the instrument’s social function in different eras. Throughout the book they discuss the great performers, from the pioneers of the seventeenth century to the traveling virtuosi of the eighteenth, the masters of the romantic period and the legends of the twentieth century such as Gillet, Goossens, Tabuteau, and Holliger. With its extensive illustrations, useful technical appendices, and discography, this is a comprehensive and authoritative volume that will be the essential companion for every woodwind student and performer.

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Yale University Press

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0300093179

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9780300093179

Avoiding Dark Corners

A Robust Monetary Policy Framework for the United States

By: Ali Alichi,Kevin Clinton,Charles Freedman,Mr.Ondra Kamenik,Michel Juillard,Mr.Douglas Laxton,Mr.Jarkko Turunen,Hou Wang

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Avoiding Dark Corners

A Robust Monetary Policy Framework for the United States

By: Ali Alichi,Kevin Clinton,Charles Freedman,Mr.Ondra Kamenik,Michel Juillard,Mr.Douglas Laxton,Mr.Jarkko Turunen,Hou Wang

The Fed has taken several steps towards strengthening its monetary framework over the past several years. Those steps have supported the Fed’s efforts to stimulate the economy through forward guidance despite being constrained by having policy rates at zero. We show that an optimal control approach to monetary policy, which includes the publication of a baseline forecast and a description of the uncertainties around that outlook, combined with an improvement in the Fed’s communications toolkit, could further enhance the effectiveness of Fed policy. In the current conjuncture, such a risk management approach to monetary policy would result in both a later liftoff of policy rates and a modest, but planned, overshooting of inflation.

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1513530011

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The Refugee Surge in Europe

Economic Challenges

By: Mr.Shekhar Aiyar,Ms.Bergljot B Barkbu,Nicoletta Batini,Mr.Helge Berger,Ms.Enrica Detragiache,Allan Dizioli,Mr.Christian H Ebeke,Ms.Huidan Huidan Lin,Ms.Linda Kaltani,Mr.Sebastian Sosa,Mr.Antonio Spilimbergo,Petia Topalova

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The Refugee Surge in Europe

Economic Challenges

Against the background of political turmoil in the Middle-East, Europe faces an unprecedented surge in asylum applications. In analyzing the economic impact of this inflow, this paper draws from the experience of previous economic migrants and refugees, mindful of the fact that the characteristics of economic migrants can be different from refugees. In the short-run, additional public expenditure will provide a small positive impact on GDP, concentrated in the main destination countries of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Over the longer-term, depending on the speed and success of the integration of refugees in the labor market, the increase in the labor force can have a more lasting impact on growth and the public finances. Here good policies will make an important difference. These include lowering barriers to labor markets for refugees, for example through wage subsidies to employers, and, in particular, reducing legal barriers to labor market participation during asylum process, removing obstacles to entrepreneurship/self-employment, providing job training and job search assistance, as well as language skills. While native workers often have legitimate concerns about the impact of immigrants on wages and employment, past experience indicates that any adverse effects are limited and temporary.

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1498352308

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The United States Economy

Performance and Issues

By: Mr.Yusuke Horiguchi

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The United States Economy

Performance and Issues

By: Mr.Yusuke Horiguchi

This book, by a staff team headed by Yusuke Horiguchi, examines U.S. economic policy and performance in the 1980s, during which the United States enjoyed its longest peacetime expansion. Notwithstanding the buoyant growth and declines in inflation, the economy experienced low savings, current account deficits, swings in the dollar exchange rate, and structural problems--relating to the strength of financial institutions, the tax system, health care, and productivity.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557752311

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Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market

Elements of Best Practice

By: Roberto Pereira Guimarães,Mr.Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko,Mr.Cem Karacadag

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Official Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market

Elements of Best Practice

By: Roberto Pereira Guimarães,Mr.Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko,Mr.Cem Karacadag

This paper offers guidance on the operational aspects of official intervention in the foreign exchange market, particularly in developing countries with flexible exchange rate regimes. A brief survey of the literature and country experience is followed by an analysis of the objectives, timing, amount, degree of transparency, and choice of markets and counterparties in conducting intervention. The analysis highlights the difficulty of detecting exchange rate misalignments and disorderly markets, and argues in favor of parsimony in official intervention. Determining the timing and amount of intervention is a highly subjective excercise, and some degree of discretion is almost necessary, though policy rules may serve as "rules of thumb.

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145185711X

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The IMF and the European Debt Crisis

By: Mr. Harold James

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The IMF and the European Debt Crisis

By: Mr. Harold James

The book explores the Fund’s engagement in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, and especially after 2010. It explains how, why, and with what consequences the International Monetary Fund—along with the European Central Bank and the European Commission (together known as “the troika”)—supported adjustment programs in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus as well as helping to monitor Spain’s adjustment program and exploring modalities for supporting Italy. Additionally, it analyzes how the euro area developments interacted with and affected the rest of Europe, including not only eastern and southeastern Europe but also the United Kingdom, where the political fallout from post-financial crisis populism—in the form of “Brexit” from the European Union—was, in the end, the most extreme. The IMF’s European programs embroiled the Fund in numerous controversies over the exceptionally large lending, over whether or not to impose losses on private creditors, and over the mix between external financing and internal adjustment undertaken by program countries. They also required the IMF to confront longstanding questions about its governance and evenhandedness in the treatment of different segments of its membership. The crisis programs, with Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus, all revolved around debt sustainability. In the Greek case, after an intense internal debate, the IMF initially chose a program without debt reduction because it feared that such a program–even if ultimately in the interests of Greece, the client country–would trigger a panic of banks and other creditors and thus generate contagion for the rest of Europe. Learning from the Greek case, in Ireland and Portugal, the IMF pushed for debt reduction, to which the government in Ireland but not in Portugal was sympathetic. There was thus no private sector debt reduction in Ireland and Portugal. The European programs were caught up in big geopolitical debates about the appropriate role of the Fund in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The book examines the intellectual and policy shifts that took place in the IMF as a result of the controversies about its European programs. It concludes with some reflections on how all the programs also produced genuine policy reform and held out the possibility of a return to growth and prosperity.

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9798400231902

Capital Account Liberalization

Theoretical and Practical Aspects

By: Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Ms.Enrica Detragiache,Mr.Michael Mussa,Mr.Barry J. Eichengreen

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Capital Account Liberalization

Theoretical and Practical Aspects

By: Mr.Giovanni Dell'Ariccia,Ms.Enrica Detragiache,Mr.Michael Mussa,Mr.Barry J. Eichengreen

Capital account liberalization - orderly, properly sequence, and befitting the individual circumstances of countries- is an inevitable step for all countries wishing to realize the benefits of the globalized economy. This paper reviews the theories behind capital account liberalization and examines the dangers associated with free capital flows. The authors conclude that the dangers can be limited through a combination of sound macroeconomic and prudential policies.

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1557757771

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The Response of the Current Account to Terms of Trade Shocks

Persistence Matters

By: Christopher J. Kent,Mr.Paul Cashin

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The Response of the Current Account to Terms of Trade Shocks

Persistence Matters

By: Christopher J. Kent,Mr.Paul Cashin

Is the relationship between the current account balance and the terms of trade affected by the persistence of terms of trade shocks? In intertemporal models of the current account that incorporate a consumption-smoothing and an investment response to shocks, the effect of the terms of trade on external balances is predicted to be dependent on the duration of terms of trade shocks. Using a median-unbiased estimator, an unbiased model-selection rule, and terms of trade data for 128 countries over the period 1960-99 we identify two groups of countries-those that typically experience temporary terms of trade shocks and those that typically experience permanent terms of trade shocks. The results from panel-data regressions of the two groups of countries support the theoretical predictions of the intertemporal approach to the current account. We find that the greater (lesser) the persistence of the terms of trade shock, the more (less) the investment effect dominates the consumption-smoothing effect on saving, so that the current account balance moves in the opposite (same) direction as that of the shock.

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1451856369

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Macroeconomic Management When Policy Space is Constrained

The 3-C Approach to Economic Policy

By: Vitor Gaspar,Mr.Maurice Obstfeld,Ms.Ratna Sahay,Mr.Douglas Laxton

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Macroeconomic Management When Policy Space is Constrained

The 3-C Approach to Economic Policy

By: Vitor Gaspar,Mr.Maurice Obstfeld,Ms.Ratna Sahay,Mr.Douglas Laxton

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1475537689

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Music Entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710–1818

from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel and Alan Tyson and from other sources

By: Mr Michael Kassler

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Music Entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710–1818

from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel and Alan Tyson and from other sources

By: Mr Michael Kassler

The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register. They included the date of registration, the name of the work's proprietor (its author or, if copyright had been transferred, its publisher), and the work's full title, which normally named the composer and the writer of any text and often named the work's performers and dedicatee. Although some publishers put the words 'Entered at Stationers' Hall' on title-pages without actually depositing copies, the information in the registers about the many works that were registered has significant bibliographic value. Because the music entries have not previously been printed and access to them has been difficult, they generally have been ignored by cataloguers and scholars, with the consequence that numerous musical works of this period have been misdated in libraries and reference books. This book makes available, for the first time, the full text of the music entries at Stationers' Hall from 1710 to 1810 and abbreviated details of works entered from 1811 to 1818. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of locations of copies of most works, together with indexes of composers, authors, performers and dedicatees, and an explanatory introduction by the compiler.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409493792

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Modeling Politics with Economic Tools

A Critical Survey of the Literature

By: Mr.Jan-Peter Olters

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Modeling Politics with Economic Tools

A Critical Survey of the Literature

By: Mr.Jan-Peter Olters

Whereas the economics discipline possesses a highly refined theoretical apparatus to analyze the effects of government behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that would permit the integration of the decision-making processes of voters, parties and governments with those of consumers and firms. Considerable recent advances notwithstanding, the large and heterogeneous body of literature has (so far) remained outside the economic mainstrain. The paper surveys the main approaches used to endogenize democratic elements and assesses the underlying reasons for researchers' renewed interest in this field.

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1451842694

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 1

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 1

By: Mr.Robert P. Flood

Forty years ago, Marcus Fleming and Robert Mundell developed independent models of macroeconomic policy in open economies. Why do we link the two, and why do we call the result the Mundell-Fleming, rather than Fieming-Mundell model?

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1589061241

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History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914

By: Peter M. R. Stirk

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History of Military Occupation from 1792 to 1914

By: Peter M. R. Stirk

An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered. It covers all major occupations including: France, Sicily, Greece, Belgium, Syria, Mexico, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Egypt, Korea, Peking, the Boer Republics; Latin America; and those related to the Napoleonic Wars, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, the Russo-Turkish War, and the Spanish-American War

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748676007

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United Germany

The First Five Years: Performance and Policy Issues

By: Mr.Robert J. Corker,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Karl Friedrich Habermeier,Ms.Tessa Van der Willigen,Mr.H. Vittas

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United Germany

The First Five Years: Performance and Policy Issues

By: Mr.Robert J. Corker,Mr.Robert Alan Feldman,Mr.Karl Friedrich Habermeier,Ms.Tessa Van der Willigen,Mr.H. Vittas

This papers reviews economic and financial developments in Germany since its reunification nearly five years ago; and analyzes some critical issues that have featured prominently in the policy debate over this period and are likely to continue attracting attention in the years ahead.

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1557754721

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Geoarchaeology

The Earth-science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation

By: George Robert Rapp,Christopher L. Hill,Rapp,MR Christopher L Hill

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Geoarchaeology

The Earth-science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation

By: George Robert Rapp,Christopher L. Hill,Rapp,MR Christopher L Hill

Considering the history and theory of geoarchaeology, this book discusses soils and environmental interpretations; initial context and site formation; methods of discovery and spatial analyses; estimating time; and others. It is for all professionals and students interested in the field of geoarchaeology

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Yale University Press

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0300109660

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9780300109665

Fiscal Stimulus Impact on Firms' Profitability During the Global Financial Crisis

By: Carolina Correa-Caro,Leandro Medina,Mr.Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro,Mr.Bennett W Sutton

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Fiscal Stimulus Impact on Firms' Profitability During the Global Financial Crisis

By: Carolina Correa-Caro,Leandro Medina,Mr.Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro,Mr.Bennett W Sutton

Using financial statement data from the Thomson Reuter’s Worldscope database for 22,333 non-financial firms in 52 advanced and emerging economies, this paper examines how fiscal stimulus (i.e., changes in structural deficit) interacted with sectoral business cycle sensitivity affected corporate profitability during the recovery period of the global financial crisis (GFC). Using cross-sectional analyses, our findings indicate that corporate profitability improved significantly after the GFC fiscal stimulus, especially in manufacturing, utilities and retail sectors. Firm size and leverage are also found to be significant in explaining changes in corporate profitability.

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