Finance & Development, September 1980
- Bank activity: Education sector policy paper; McNamara to retire in 1981; Bank loans and IDA credits
- Fund activity: de Larosière outlines Fund role in present global economy; A Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C.; budgeting seminar; Fund transactions
- Developments in the world economy: An outline based on Chapter One of the Fund’s Annual Report for 1980
- An international perspective on basic needs: Providing for basic needs can help in alleviating poverty and developing human resources; national strategies may vary
- World Development Report, 1980—principal themes: A review by World Bank staff of the global economic situation and prospects with special emphasis on the development of human resources
- World Bank lending for structural adjustment: A new type of lending evolved by the Bank to help member countries make structural changes in their economies
- Managing external debt in developing countries: Principal issues in the increased flow of external finance to developing countries and the Fund’s role in helping members with debt difficulties
- Double-digit inflation: a wasteful tax for the developing world: Saving through inflation is a mirage
- Tax-base erosion and inflation: the case of Ghana: Controlling imports and prices of key products, while maintaining an overvalued exchange rate, can erode the tax base when inflation is high
- Community health care in developing countries: An efficient and low-cost method of providing greater health care, but one that is underutilized
- Reflections on the international monetary system: A report on the 1980 Per Jacobsson Lecture
- Book notices
Article
An international perspective on basic needs: Providing for basic needs can help in alleviating poverty and developing human resources; national strategies may vary
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- September 1980

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