Book Description
IMF History (1972-1978) Volume 2
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1451931069
IMF History (1972-1978) Volume 2
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 145192268X
IMF History (1972-1978), Volume 1
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 145194022X
IMF economists work closely with member countries on a variety of issues. Their unique perspective on country experiences and best practices on global macroeconomic issues are often shared in the form of books on diverse topics such as cross-country comparisons, capacity building, macroeconomic policy, financial integration, and globalization.
Author : Mr.James M. Boughton
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1616350849
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.
Author : Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521812900
An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development.
Author : Daniel J. Sargent
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195395476
Geopolitics and globalization collided in the 1970s, and their collision produced difficult challenges for the makers of American foreign policy. A Superpower Transformed explains how policymakers across three administrations worked to manage complex international changes in a tumultuous era, and it explores the legacies of their efforts to accommodate American power to new forces stirring in world affairs.
Author : James M. Boughton
Publisher :
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : International finance
ISBN :
This volume, fourth in a series of periodic histories of the institution, is as much a history of the world economy during 1979-89 as one of the IMF itself. Boughton discusses the IMF's surveillance of the international monetary system in the 1980s; the Fund's role in the international debt crisis of the 1980s, and IMF lending in support of structural adjustment in low-income countries during that period. The volume concludes with a general history of the institution, including the quota system, the SDR, membership, and other institutional matters.
Author : Lawrence H. Officer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135986045
This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to shipping conferences; financing of the United Nations and International Monetary Fund; monetary history of the UK and US; and central-bank preferences between gold and dollars, The book first examines multidimensional pricing, defined as pricing when a commodity or service has several characteristics that are priced. The second part is concerned with country-group conflicts in the United Nations and International Monetary Fund. The book then takes a fresh look at historical experiences of monetary-standard upheavals and the final part considers a crucial time (1958-67), during which central-bank gold-dollar decisions were power-politically determined.
Author : Mr.James M. Boughton
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781557759702
This pamphlet is adapted from Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89, by the same author. That book is full of history of the evolution of the Fund during 11 years in which the institution truly came of age as a participant in the international financial system.
Author : Jacqueline Best
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501722182
A decade of crises has reminded us of the fragility of the international financial system. Conventional wisdom holds that uncertainty is the basic problem of financial governance, and attempts to contain ambiguity have dominated recent financial reform efforts. Jacqueline Best, however, contends that ambiguity can play a valuable role in international political and economic stability. The stability of the postwar era depended, Best suggests, on a carefully maintained balance between coherence and ambiguity. In her view, the collapse of the Bretton Woods exchange-rate regime was caused in large part by the increasing rigidity of the system and its corresponding inability to accommodate ambiguity.This is a novel argument in an area much discussed by economists and political scientists. Their debate has focused on uncertainty as a technical problem and transparency as the solution. Although such policies are presented as technical, Best demonstrates that they are also political, have cultural consequences, and may prove counterproductive. Rather than assume that transparency is the ultimate goal, Best argues, we must recognize that ambiguity is pervasive, substantive, and potentially constructive. To read this book is to comprehend more deeply the ways in which politics is fundamental to economic theory and practice and to understand why the economy requires political leadership in order to flourish.