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Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother?   |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Dadush & Nielson |
Governing Global Trade The multilateral system that has underpinned world trade for over 50 years is facing serious challenges. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Anne McGuirk |
The Doha Development Agenda The launch of a new trade round in Doha last November was a major breakthrough following the debacle in Seattle in 1999. The new round places the needs and interests of developing countries at the heart of its work, but a successful outcome is by no means a foregone conclusion. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001 |
Book reviews and notes The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati... Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards... The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics... etc. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
BusinessWeek
October 10, 2005
Jeffrey E. Garten |
The Pirates Of Global Trade A new book, Illicit, calls for a global assault on contraband traffickers. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Peter D. Sutherland |
Why We Should Embrace Globalization For the first time, many companies are operating on a global basis. Although this change has raised fears among some people in both industrial and developing countries, it offers new and exciting opportunities for raising living standards worldwide. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Boughton & Bradford |
Global Governance: New Players, New Rules The financial turbulence of 2007 illustrates -- not for the first time -- both the benefits and the risks of financial globalization. Here's why the 20th-century model needs a makeover. |
Parameters
Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
Collapse in Cancun: The World Trade Agenda Gets Sidetracked Despite a recognition that free trade in theory leads to greater global prosperity, participants at Cancun fell into two general, and opposing, camps. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The International Financial Architecture: What's New? What's Missing? by Peter B. Kenen... Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future by Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap... Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc by Anders Aslund... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 2007 |
Book Reviews Ethics and Finance: Finding a Moral Compass in Business Today... Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability... Economics the Caribbean way... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000, by Niall Ferguson... Glimpses of Indian Economic Policy: An Insider's View, by I. G. Patel... Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929, by Maury Klein... Integrating China into the Global Economy, by Nicholas R. Lardy... etc. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Flemming Larsen |
The IMF's Dialogue with Nongovernmental Organizations The IMF is responding to questions about its role in today's world economy by reaching out to civil society at large and to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in particular... |
IndustryWeek
June 23, 2010 |
TradeTension As the volume of world trade grows, trade disagreements also are growing in complexity and number. Here are some key trade disputes that manufacturers should have on their radar. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2006
Ann Cullen |
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance A discussion about the implications and the historical roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Kevin Watkins |
Making Globalization Work for the Poor In the view of the IMF, the World Bank, and most northern governments, removing barriers to trade is one of the most powerful things that governments can do to give the poor a bigger stake in global prosperity... |
BusinessWeek
October 9, 2006
Peter Coy |
One World, Two Blueprints "Making Globalization Work" gives a creative look at how globalization can improve the lot of poor nations. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2004
Jill Jusko |
The Two Sides Of Trade Manufacturers are full of praise and criticism as the WTO's influence spreads. Meanwhile the 146-member group finds itself at a crucial crossroads as globalization alters the trade landscape. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000 |
Books Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation... The Lexus and the Olive Tree... Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty... The Future of the Electronic Marketplace... The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy... Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund, Second Edition... |
Finance & Development
September 2008 |
Book Reviews Michael Tomz takes a look at the history of debt default in his latest book... Douglas Wass brings back unhappy memories in the his latest book The Making of British Macro-Economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Sergio Pereira Leite |
Human Rights and the IMF Human rights and macroeconomic stability are far from incompatible. Rather, they both play crucial roles in the fight against poverty. By supporting sound economic policies and encouraging constructive dialogue within civil society, the IMF contributes to human rights. |
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, 2002
James M. Boughton |
Globalization and the Silent Revolution of the 1980s During the 1980s, the economic policymakers of many countries underwent a dramatic change in thinking. How beneficial has this 'silent revolution' been, and what can policymakers and the international community do now to broaden and secure the gains it has brought? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
In brief Sovereign debt bankruptcy rules... New round of trade talks... Financing for Development conference... |
Finance & Development
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
James M. Boughton |
Michel Camdessus at the IMF: A Retrospective It may be some years until a definitive assessment of Michel Camdessus's unprecedented 13 years as Managing Director can be made. In this article, the IMF's Historian provides a preliminary evaluation. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001 |
Bulletin IMFC Meeting Endorses IMF Crisis Prevention Efforts... IMF in the process of change... The IMF's Role in Poverty Reduction... IMF Acts to Streamline and Focus Conditionality... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Adhikari & Yang |
What Will WTO Membership Mean for China and Its Trading Partners? After 15 years of arduous negotiations, China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization. The opening of an economy as large as China's can be disruptive to some developing countries in the short run, but, in the long run, it should benefit not only China but also its trading partners. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Peter Coy |
Free Trade Can Be Too Free Economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the case against unfettered globalization. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2007
Thomas J. Duesterberg |
The Competitive Edge -- Time to End the Global Gridlock Lack of movement in world trade negotiations could be costing U.S. manufacturers half a trillion dollars. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Saleh M. Nsouli |
Capacity Building in Africa: The Role of International Financial Institutions This article reviews the evidence on the importance of domestic institutions for economic growth and examines the role of international financial institutions, and particularly the IMF and its training, in capacity building in Africa. |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Book Reviews Books of economic interest: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo... Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, by Michael A. Clemens... more... |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Prakash Loungani |
The People's Professor "The most misunderstood man in America" -- that's what Newsweek called Joseph Stiglitz in an article this year. The 2001 Nobel laureate in economics "can't get any respect at home," the magazine said. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Esprit de Currency The IMF and WTO must pull together to iron out exchange rate policy disputes. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Virginia Postrel |
Impure Thoughts Waiting for perfectly "clean" opportunities to apply your principles means you could lose them altogether. The IMF, taxes and wealth distribution, Sierra Club and tourism in Hawaii. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Peter Coy |
The Boom: What Went Wrong A review of nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz's new book The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000 |
Bulletin Pressing Issues of Globalization and Poverty Reduction Are Focus of 2000 IMF--World Bank Annual Meetings... Horst Kohler's Vision for the IMF... Research at the IMF... |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006
Peter Coy |
Why Free-Trade Talks Are In Free Fall As the total benefits from lowering trade barriers in goods diminish, there simply isn't enough added wealth generated to buy support for the deal by such measures as retraining unemployed workers. So the winners in each nation are drowned out by the losers. |
