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Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Leonardo Cardemil, Juan Carlos Di Tata, & Florencia Frantischek	Central America: Adjustment and Reforms in the 1990s Following a weak performance in the 1980s, the Central American economies experienced a turnaround in the 1990s as they adopted improved policies within a more stable political environment. Now, how can they best maintain macroeconomic stability, continue structural reforms, and strengthen social policies to maximize rates of economic growth and reduce the incidence of poverty?
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Emine Gurgen	Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects Although the five Central Asian countries in transition have made progress in moving to a market economy, they still have far to go and need to intensify their reform efforts.
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Jose Angel Gurria	Mexico: Recent Developments, Structural Reforms, and Future Challenges In recent years, the Mexican government has implemented a series of economic reforms to strengthen the country's fundamentals and increase its ability to cope with external shocks. Because of the progress that has been made, the government is confident that Mexico will be able to leave recent crises behind and start the new millennium with a stable and growing economy.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Singh & Collyns	Latin America's Resurgence Latin America's recent resurgence amid continuing favorable external conditions provides another historic opportunity for the region to catalyze its considerable natural and human capital resources into sustained and higher growth.
Finance & Development September 2011	Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed.
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Anthony Elson	What Happened? Here's why East Asia surged ahead of Latin America and some lessons for economic policy.
Finance & Development March 2011 Mario Mesquita	Great Expectations Brazil's economic success has raised the bar for that country, at home and abroad.
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Burton et al.	Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances.
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Alvin D.L. Hilaire	Economic Stabilization in the Caribbean Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago simultaneously tackled serious economic difficulties in the early 1990s. The results of their adjustment programs demonstrate that fiscal reform, supported by other policies, may be the key to achieving a sustainable recovery...
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Zagha, Nankani & Gill	Rethinking Growth Economists are reconsidering what they really know about economic growth and how to go about formulating global national policies in the absence of reliable models.
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Nora Lustig & Omar Arias	Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises?
Finance & Development March 2011 Jorge Canales-Kriljenko et al.	Ending Instability How monetary policy reforms helped propel five major Latin American countries from recurrent crises to economic stability.
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Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Robert A. Feldman & C. Maxwell Watson	Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership The Central European countries have made considerable progress with the transition to a market economy and now face the challenge of developing macroeconomic policy frameworks on the road to EU accession.
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Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Arminio Fraga	A Fork in the Road Latin America faces a choice between populism and deeper reform.
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Finance & Development June 2009 Horton & El-Ganainy	Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy?
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Evangelos A. Calamitsis	The Need for Stronger Domestic Policies and International Support Globalization is a powerful engine of world prosperity, and it is certainly here to stay. Income disparities remain large. The basic issue is what policies and reforms are most likely to bring about sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all the peoples of the world.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Carstens & Luis I. Jacome H.	Taming the Monster How Latin America's central banks survived hyperinflation to become guardians of price stability.
Finance & Development March 2011 Nicolas Eyzaguirre	Sustaining Latin America's Transformation Building on recent successes, Latin America now has a chance to raise its profile in the global marketplace.
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Pedro Pou	Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s Argentina experienced serious economic and financial difficulties in the 1980s. Hyperinflation in 1989-90 finally elicited the necessary political consensus for reform. Despite areas of concern, structural reforms implemented in the 1990s have set Argentina on the path to sustained growth.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Nora Lustig & Nicholas Stern	Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks.
Finance & Development September 2009 Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals	Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery.
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Enzo Croce & Mohsin S. Khan	Monetary Regimes and Inflation Targeting Inflation targeting---a framework for monetary policy that commits the central bank to achieving low inflation---has enjoyed considerable success among industrial countries in helping to maintain price stability...
Finance & Development December 2009 Baldacci & Gupta	Fiscal Expansions: What Works There is a firm link between the composition of fiscal policy and the length of a financial crisis.
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Arminio Fraga	Monetary Policy During the Transition to a Floating Exchange Rate: Brazil's Recent Experience The financial crisis that erupted in Asia in 1997 quickly spread to other developing regions, as international investors panicked and pulled their capital out. In this article, the governor of Brazil's central bank outlines the steps Brazil took to avert financial disaster when inflows of private foreign capital suddenly dried up.
Finance & Development December 2010	Emerging Markets Come of Age These vibrant middle-income countries survived the global recession, but face bumps as they seek to solidify their place in the world economy.
Finance & Development September 2010 Mark Horton	How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Arturo Valenzuela	Putting Latin America Back on the Map Consolidation of democratic institutions is a vital part of Latin America's recovery.
Finance & Development June 2009 Eyzaguirre et al.	Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear.
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Leszek Balcerowicz	Poland's Transformation Poland has made considerable progress over the past decade in transforming its centrally planned economy into a market-oriented one, but challenges remain. How can it best complete this transformation and facilitate its integration into the European Union?
Finance & Development March 2011 Alicia Barcena	Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do.
Finance & Development September 2010 Kevin Cheng	The Long Run Is Near France, like many advanced economies, confronts the expensive needs of a rapidly aging population
Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Janet Stotsky, Esther Suss, & Stephen Tokarick	Trade Liberalization in the Caribbean Since the mid-1990s, the governments of Caribbean countries have demonstrated a firm commitment to trade liberalization. What steps have they taken, what have the results been, and what further steps should they consider taking?
IDB America December 2005 Charo Quesada	A Giant That Needs to Keep Growing A Brazilian academic suggests ways to accelerate the development of Latin America's largest economy.
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Danny M. Leipziger	The Unfinished Poverty Agenda: Why Latin America and the Caribbean Lag Behind Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing poverty rates since the 1980s, largely because of sluggish growth...
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Paul Chabrier	Growth Strategy for North Africa: A Regional Approach Independent business surveys show that private investors generally feel that the business environment in the region has many serious problems, such as excessive red tape and weak domestic institutions---particularly the legal and judicial systems.
Finance & Development June 2010 Finger & Sadikov	Lowering Public Debt Many countries have slashed their public debt ratios in the past, often thanks to macroeconomic conditions. They may be less lucky in the future.
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Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Hausmann, Rodrik & Velasco	Getting the Diagnosis Right A new approach to economic reform: Because across-the-board reforms are politically difficult and have often failed to achieve growth, countries need to figure out the one or two most binding constraints on their economies and then focus on lifting those.
Finance & Development September 1, 2006 Anthony Annett	Reform in Europe: What Went Right? Successful economic and social reformers can offer valuable lessons for the rest of the EU.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Andrews et al.	Ethiopia: Scaling Up Assessing the impact of a dramatic increase in aid on one of Africa's poorest countries.
Finance & Development June 2010 Linda Yueh	A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration.
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Fasano & Iqbal	Common Currency GCC (Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf) countries face fundamental choices as they head for monetary union.
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Mohamed Daouas	Africa Faces Challenges of Globalization
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay	Taking Stock Economic performance has differed widely among the transition economies. The best performers are countries that were the most committed to reform at the start and that have carried out reforms rapidly and consistently.
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Martin Muhleisen & Hamid Faruqee	Japan: Population Aging and the Fiscal Challenge With Japan facing a demographic crisis, government finances--stretched to the limit to keep the economy afloat--have to cope with the rising strain on public pension and health systems. This article looks at the economic and fiscal costs of aging in Japan...