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Back to Basics: Inequality: Now you see it, now you don’t »
Source: Finance & Development, September 2003
Volume/Issue: 40/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 August 2003
ISBN: 9781451952414
Keywords: monetary fund, inflation, exchange rate, exchange rates
This paper highlights that the Washington Consensus helped fill the need for an economic policy framework following the discrediting of central planning and import-substitution trade strategies. Latin American gove...
Back to Basics: Taxes in Practice - It is hard to design a fair and efficient revenue system »
Source: Finance & Development, March 2015
Volume/Issue: 52/1
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 February 2015
ISBN: 9781498351942
Keywords: Finance and Development, jobs, labor market, unemployment, finance, monetary fund
This chapter discusses the impact of global recession on the working population and looks at the future of work in the global economy from a variety of angles. IMF economist Prakash Loungani leads off with an overv...
Building Consensus on Poverty Reduction »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2002
Volume/Issue: 39/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2002
ISBN: 9781451952896
Keywords: poverty reduction, fiscal profligacy, fiscal policy, spending cuts
This paper highlights that despite unprecedented gains in living standards in some countries over the past few decades, poverty continues as a harsh reality in too much of the developing world. The causes lie in pa...
Climate and Economic Development: Is the location of many developing countries in the tropics a cause of their poverty? »
Source: Finance & Development, June 1973
Volume/Issue: 10/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 1973
ISBN: 9781616353124
Keywords: economic development, temperate zone, soils, tropical soils, tropical areas
This paper reviews the influence of the tropical climate on economic development. The paper highlights that the effect of climate is clearly not the only ruling constraint on economic development. It is claimed tha...
Combating Poverty: Experience and Prospects »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1990
Volume/Issue: 27/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1990
ISBN: 9781451952063
Keywords: social services, social conditions, social sectors, reducing poverty, human resource development
Providing economic opportunities for the poor and building up their capacity to take advantage of those opportunities can help reduce poverty and ensure sustainable growth...
Designing a Global Compact on Education »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2005
Volume/Issue: 42/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 June 2005
ISBN: 9781451953954
Keywords: primary education, monetary fund, elementary education, universal primary education, Letters to the Editor,
The paper highlights that over the past century, access to education has increased enormously, illiteracy has fallen dramatically, and a higher proportion of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary ed...
Development and Income Distribution: Economic growth has been accompanied by increasing inequality in many developing countries. But a strategy of “nibbling” at the problems of income distribution through financial and technical assistance seems promising. »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1973
Volume/Issue: 10/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1973
ISBN: 9781616353131
Keywords: income distribution, per capita income, income groups, distribution of income
This paper focuses on the subject of development and income distribution, and suggests a method whereby economic development can be skewed in favor of the poor. The paper underscores that improvements in the distri...
Development FOCUS: Poverty and Economic Policy in the Philippines »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1998
Volume/Issue: 35/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1998
ISBN: 9781451952278
Keywords: income distribution, unskilled workers, fiscal affairs department, taxation, public expenditures
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...
Effects of Fund programs: Global effects of Fund-supported programs: Are they properly understood and easily measured? Not entirely »
Source: Finance & Development, March 1986
Volume/Issue: 23/1
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 1986
ISBN: 9781616353643
Keywords: external financing, external debt, debt problems, domestic savings, world economy
This paper examines adjustment, growth, and the IMF's role. Under the Baker plan, the IMF would continue to play a central role in dealing with the economic imbalances and the debt problems that countries face, a r...
The Euro: Ever More Global: The euro’s future use will be shaped by factors largely outside policymakers’ control »
Source: Finance & Development, March 2007
Volume/Issue: 44/1
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 March 2007
ISBN: 9781451953787
Keywords: finance, capital, monetary fund, capital flows, financial globalization, urbanization, urban poverty, press, slums, website
The Two Faces of Financial Globalization looks at the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows-credited with boosting growth in developing countries but also blamed for the emerging market crises of the la...