 | 10 Selected IMF Economic Issues Release Date:April, 2008 The IMF's Economic Issues series makes available to a broad readership of nonspecialists insights derived from key IMF economic research. The papers are written in concise, nontechnical language, and more...
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 | Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Richard Hemming, Gerd Schwartz. Release Date:March, 2007 Over the past three decades, public spending on infrastructure, as a share of GDP, has been on the decline worldwide. Although the link between infrastructure investment and economic growth is not more...
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 | Integrating Poor Countries into the World Trading System Author/Editor: international Monetary Fund. Release Date:April, 2006 Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries’ trade policies and their development strategies. However, although greater more...
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 | Can Debt Relief Boost Growth in Poor Countries? Author/Editor: Toan Quoc Nguyen, Rina Bhattacharya, Benedict J. Clements. Release Date:March, 2006 The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, launched in 1999 by the IMF and the World Bank, was the first coordinated effort by the international financial community to reduce the foreign more...
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 | Accountability Arrangements for Financial Sector Regulators Author/Editor: Eva H. G. Hüpkes, Marc Quintyn, Michael Taylor. Release Date:March, 2006 Policymakers are often reluctant to grant independence to the agencies that regulate and supervise the financial sector because of the fear that these agencies, with their wide-ranging more...
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 | Preserving Financial Stability Author/Editor: Garry J. Schinasi. Release Date:January, 2006 Spurred by advances in information and computer technologies, financial liberalization and innovation took off inthe late 1970s. Although the changes in financial markets have been beneficial more...
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 | Moving to a Flexible Exchange Rate: How, When, and How Fast? Author/Editor: Gilda Fernandez, Cem Karacadag, Rupa Duttagupta. Release Date:January, 2006 A growing number of countries are adopting flexible exchange rate regimes because flexibility offers more protection against external shocks and greater monetary independence. Other countries have more...
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 | Financial Reform: What Shakes It? What Shapes It? Author/Editor: Ashoka Mody, Abdul Abiad. Release Date:July, 2005 Financial sector liberalization was high on the agenda of policymakers during the last quarter of the twentieth century. But there were significant differences in the pace and scale of reform. This more...
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| Educating Children in Poor Countries Author/Editor: E. Jenkner, Arye L. Hillman. Release Date:June, 2005 In an ideal world, primary education would be universal and publicly financed, and all children would be able to attend school regardless of their parents’ ability or willingness to pay. In more...
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| Should Financial Sector Regulators Be Independent? Author/Editor: Marc Quintyn, Michael Taylor. Release Date:March, 2004 In nearly every major financial crisis of the past decade-from East Asia to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America-political interference in financial sector regulation helped make a bad situation worse. more...
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