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Finance & Development
December 2009
Jones & Keen |
Climate Policy in Hard Times Restoring economic growth after the global financial crisis need not thwart the fight against climate change   |
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March 2008
Natalia Tamirisa |
Climate Change and the Economy Policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases need not hobble the economy. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Jones et al. |
Paying for Climate Change Governments must manage the incentives for households and firms to counter and adapt to climate change. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Peter S. Heller & Muthukumara Mani |
Adapting to Climate Change Not much talked about but still worrisome are the economic and fiscal disruptions likely to be caused by global climate change, especially for developing countries. Policymakers should take steps to minimize these disruptions, and sooner rather than later... |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
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, 2008
Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Baldacci et al. |
Getting Debt under Control In dealing with the aftermath of the Great Recession, policymakers must pay attention to the mix of austerity policies. |
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
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. |
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
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Bakker & Gulde |
Searching for Stability Eastern Europe rode a decade-long boom into a serious bust and now must figure out how to restart growth on a more even keel. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Steve Rayner |
Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously The outgoing administration failed to come to grips with climate change out of fear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would damage the economy. |
Science News
January 3, 2009
R.K. Pachauri |
Obama Administration Should Lead Energy Transition The director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi speaks about the changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001 |
Bulletin Kohler Calls For Coordinated International Response in Wake of September 11 Attacks... IMF Releases Reduced World Economic Outlook Projections... External Financing for IMF Technical Assistance... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
Peter Heller |
Back to Basics -- Fiscal Space: What It Is and How to Get It Although the term is new, the concept is not. It has long been an element of sound fiscal analysis. And the challenge of creating fiscal space is one that has always confronted governments and their advisors, including international financial institutions like the IMF. |
Finance & Development
June 2010 |
Min Zhu on Asia's Economy and More A conversation with the special advisor to the IMF's managing director about Asia in the new world order, global economic issues, and the IMF's relations with the region that is favored to lead the world out of crisis. |
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
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
December 2009
Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
Laura Wallace |
From the Editor With prices for oil, nickel, tin, corn, and wheat hitting record highs in recent months, it's time to ask just how long this boom will last and how economies will fare. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
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
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unequal = Indebted Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Linda Rowan |
A Change in Climate in Congress: To Act or Not To Act Because some state and local governments are taking action, Congress will need to set some federal standards in the near term. The nation can ill-afford a hodge-podge of regulations and policies on climate change across the country. |
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
December 2011
Florence Jaumotte |
Fixing the Flaws in EMU The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Lipschitz et al. |
The Tosovsky Dilemma: Capital Surges in Transition Countries Transition countries that open themselves up to global capital markets are vulnerable to large and potentially erratic flows. Such flows should not be seen as one-off destabilizing events: they are intrinsic to the transition process and therefore need to be factored into policy formulation. |
Finance & Development
December 2009 |
Response to "Viewpoint: Technology, not Talks, Will Save the Planet" A response to Bjorn Lomborg's article on investment in R&D of low-carbon energy technologies. |
Bank Technology News
November 2006
Richard Muirhead |
Gaining Steam to Go Green Reducing a financial institution's carbon footprint isn't just the environmentally correct thing to do, it's a way to conserve energy and save money by operating more efficient facilities and data centers. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Megan Sever |
Affording the Costs of Climate Change Taking immediate action to try to mitigate climate change is not only necessary, it is affordable, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Eswar Prasad |
Rebalancing Growth in Asia Asian emerging markets can improve their economic welfare by rebalancing growth toward domestic demand. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Ernesto Hernandez-Cata |
Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Done? Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that would improve its prospects. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
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... |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Cihak & Mitra |
Losing Their Halo Many countries in central and eastern Europe are finding it hard to adjust to the new economic reality |
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. |
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Energy Conservation is No Barrier to Japan's Economic Ambitions Every spring, fierce winds kick up the Gobi Desert's dust and blow east through China, where the dirt blends with pollutants from the growing numbers of factories. The resulting mixture travels across the Sea of Japan. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Ahmed, Lane & Schulze-Ghattas |
Refocusing IMF Conditionality Shortly after he assumed office as Managing Director of the IMF in May 2000, Horst Kohler launched a reform of the conditionality associated with its lending. What lies behind this change in approach, and what prospects does it have for strengthening implementation of reforms in the IMF's member countries? |
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
Haizhou Huang & S. Kal Wajid |
Financial Stability in the World of Global Finance To reduce their vulnerability to national and international financial crises, countries must address the weaknesses in their financial systems... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Masood Ahmed |
Building Consensus on Poverty Reduction One hundred eighty-nine countries came together at the United Nations Millennium Summit and pledged to act individually and collectively to make the Millennium Development Goals a reality. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Ghosh & Ramakrishnan |
Do Current Account Deficits Matter? The current account balance may seem to be an abstruse economic concept. But in countries that are spending a lot more abroad than they are taking in, the current account is the point at which international economics collides with political reality. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Straight Talk Rethinking capital controls: When should we keep an open mind? |
