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FROM STRINGS OF SHELLS in the Solomon Islands to large stone disks on the Micronesian isle of Yap or wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese in Italy, money has taken many forms [...]

THE INTRODUCTION of shiny new euro notes and coins at the beginning of this year was indeed an exciting event. But one has to wonder. Why hasn't paper and metal [...]

This article is based on a longer paper, 'The Changing Role of the State: Institutional Dimensions,' available as PRE Working Paper No. 495 (August 1990) from Zeny Kranzer, Room N-9051, [...]

Since the 2011 uprisings in many Middle Eastern and North African countries, the role of women in the economy has expanded somewhat--at least on paper. But as the following vignettes [...]

A piece of paper: dog-eared and taped--somewhat haphazardly--to the wall. The makeshift faculty listing at the University of California, Berkeley's Economics Department symbolizes a humility that flies in the face [...]

This article is based on the 2012 IMF Board paper 'Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks for Resource-Rich Developing Countries,' by an IMF staff team led by Dhaneshwar Ghura and Catherine Pattillo, and [...]

In 1971, whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg discovered the so-called Pentagon Papers and spent countless nights photocopying over 7,000 pages before delivering them to the New York Times and the Washington Post. [...]

Surjit Bhalla Imagine There's No Country--Poverty, inequality and Growth In the Era of Globalization Institute for international Economics, Washington, 2002, xix + 248 pp., $28 (paper). NOTWITHSTANDING Joe Stiglitz's tenure [...]

WHAT EXACTLY is a poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), the centerpiece of the international community's new assault on poverty? It is essentially a road map prepared by countries themselves to [...]

BOLIVIA'S poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), known in Spanish as La Estrategia Boliviana de Reduccion de la Pobreza, was issued in March 2001. Building on an earlier national dialogue that [...]

For details of this study, see 'Military Expenditure: Econometric Testing of Economic and Political Influences - by the author, available as IMF Working Paper WP/91/53. In recent years, some countries [...]

This article is based on a paper presented at a conference on food security and trade in May 1991. The work on food security in Malaui, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and [...]

Anders Aslund Building Capitalism The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc Cambridge University Press, New York/Cambridge, England, 2002, xvii + 508 pp., $80/£55 (cloth), $26.95/£19.95 (paper). Peter Reddaway and Dmitri [...]

Most of the ideas in this article are discussed in detail in the author's 'Eonomic Poky Making: Lessons from Costa Rica, Published as Occasional Paper No. 21 by the international [...]

For a detailed version, see Interest Rates and Government Debt.- Are the Linkages Global Rather than National'' by Vito Tanzi and Mark Lutz, IMF Working Paper (WP/91/16), available from the [...]

For a detailed analysis, see 'Export Processing Zones for Growth and Development.- The Mauritian Example, ' by Rolf Alter, IMF Working Paper, WP/90/122, available from the Indian Ocean Division of [...]

Liaquat Ahamed Money and Tough Love On Tour with the IMF Visual Editions, London, 2014,208 pp., $40.00 (paper). In Money and Tough Love, Liaquat Ahamed describes the professional lives of [...]

Giuseppe Schlitzer Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000, 128 pp., EUR 7.23 (paper). MORE THAN 50 years after its creation, the IMF is still widely misunderstood. Some perceive it as a development [...]

Ruth de Krivoy Group of Thirty, Washington, 2000, [xv] + 281 pp., $40 (paper). ALTHOUGH MANY authors have studied the causes, consequences, and early indicators of banking crises, this book [...]

Jacques Bendelac De la dependance a l'autonomie L'Harmattan, Paris, 1999, 157 pp., FF 90 (paper). A NUMBER of recent publications on the economy of the West Bank and Gaza, including [...]

Courtney N. Blackman A Small State Perspective Caribbean Center for Monetary Studies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, 1998, xx + 303 pp., $25 (paper). THIS COLLECTION of 15 essays [...]

Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham (editors) Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World Brookings Institution Press/Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, Washington, 2000, x + 331 pp., $24.95 (paper). NANCY [...]

A Stream of Windows Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, Iiii + 531 pp., $47.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paper). PROFESSOR Bhagwati has assembled in this [...]

Martin Feldstein (editor) International Capital Flows University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1999, x + 467 pp., $60 (cloth), $25 (paper). Changes in technology and the opening up of many [...]

The Future of the Electronic Marketplace Derek Leebaert MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, vii + 383 pp., $$38.50 (cloth), $17.50 (paper). The Weightless World Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy [...]

Walter Bagehot A Description of the Money Market Wiley, New York, 1999, x + 359 pp., $34.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). IN THE Glorious Year 1688, the father of the poet [...]

Miles Kahler (editor) Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1998, xi + 268 PP., $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). THE EMERGING market crisis that unfolded in the summer of 1997 has [...]

Kenneth S. Rogoff The Curse of Cash Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2016,248 pp., $29.95 (cloth). The Johns--Law and Keynes--strove to defenestrate gold, and they rather liked fiat paper. [...]

Bessma Momani ARAB DAWN Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring University of Toronto Press, 2015, 176 pp., $21.95 (paper). For those readers who have consumed little information [...]

Joris Luyendijk Swimming with Sharks My Journey into the World of the Bankers Guardian Faber, London, 2015, 288 pp., 12.99 £ (paper). Reality is complicated and the human mind can [...]

Arvind Subramanian Eclipse Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, 2011, 216 pp., $21.95 (paper). The main message of this impressive little book [...]

THE images of emaciated children with eyes so hollow they seem to be looking death squarely in the face have faded from our morning papers and evening news programs. Yet, [...]

Adam Fergusson When Money Dies The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany PublicAffairs, New York, 2010, 288 pp., $14.95 (paper) When Money Dies is not a [...]

Michael Spence The Next Convergence The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, May 2011, 320 pp., $27.00 (paper). We may be standing [...]

Dambisa Moyo Dead Aid Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009, 188 pp., $24.00 (paper). DAMBISA [...]

Michael Tomz Reputation and International Cooperation Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries Princeton University Press, 2007, 328 pp., $22.95 (paper). READERS interested in gaining a better long-run appreciation f the history [...]

African Development Making Sense of the Issues and Actors Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 2007, 250 pp., $22 (paper). Sub-Saharan Africa's early post-independence years were hopeful, and an international [...]

Orazlo Attanaslo and Miguel Szekely (editors) Portrait of the Poor An Assets-Based Approach Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, 2001, 272 pp., $24.95 (paper). 'THE RICH are very different from you and [...]

David Woodward The Next Crisis? Direct and Equity Investment in Developing Countries Zed Books, New York, 2001, xiv + 240 pp., $69 (cloth), $25 (paper). THIS BOOK takes on international [...]

Samuel Paul Holding the State to Account Citizen Monitoring in Action Books for Change, Bangalore, 2002, xi + 196 pp., Rs 350/$16 (cloth), Rs 250/$12 (paper). WHEN PUBLIC SERVICES fail, [...]

Elina Cardoso and Ahmed Galal (editors) Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes Options for the Middle East Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Cairo, 2002, xi + 338 pp. (paper). THESE [...]

Integrating China into the Global Economy Nicholas R. Lardy Brookings Institution Press, Washington, 2002, vii + 244 pp., $48.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). NICHOLAS LARDY presents an excellent analysis of China's [...]

KEVIN WATKINS's article, 'Making Globalization Work for the Poor,' contains much that is consistent with our article in Finance & Development (September 2001), which was based on our working paper, [...]

Janet Byrne (editor) The Occupy Handbook Back Bay Books, New York, 2012, 256 pp., $15.99 (paper). 'This is a demand to be heard. It's a demand to have a voice. [...]

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski Soccernomics Nation Books, NewYork, 2009, 336 pp., $14.95 (paper). Are you getting ready for the soccer World Cup in South Africa this summer? Did you [...]

Eduard Brau and Ian McDonald, editors Successes of the International Monetary Fund Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009, 231 pp., $34.95 (paper). THIS is an [...]

Marcus Noland and Howard Pack The Arab Economies in a Changing World Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 2007, 350 pp., $24.95 (paper). In The Arab Economies in a [...]

Vito Tanzi Argentina: An Economic Chronicle How One of the Richest Countries in the World Lost Its Wealth Jorge Pinto Books, New York, 2007, 164 pp., $19.95 (paper). VITO TANZI, [...]

Anders Aslund Russia's Capitalist Revolution Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 2007, 356 pp., $26.95 (paper). The transformation of the Soviet Union [...]

Mohan Munasinghe Making Development More Sustainable Sustainomics Framework and Practical Applications MIND Press, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007, 650 pp., $40 (paper). Having adopted the sustainable development label, most analysts initially [...]