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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...   |
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
December 1, 2001
Mohamed Daouas |
Africa Faces Challenges of Globalization |
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
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
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, 2007
Kose et al. |
Financial Globalization: Beyond the Blame Game A new way of looking at financial globalization -- the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows -- reexamines its costs and benefits. |
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... |
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, 2001
G.E. Gondwe |
Making Globalization Work in Africa There is no doubt that economic growth rates in sub-Saharan Africa have lagged far behind those of other regions and that Africa is the region least integrated into the global economy. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization |
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. |
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, 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... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Seyni N'Diaye |
The Role of Institutional Reforms ...It is precisely from this restrictive regulatory framework that African countries must extricate themselves if they are to realize their true potential in the global economy... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Kose & Prasad |
Thinking Big How can small states hold their own in an increasingly globalized economy? |
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? |
Reason
September 2004
Prakash Loungani |
Globalization Without Tears The book In Defense of Globalization tries to show that major complaints about the adverse social effects of globalization are mistaken. Globalization in fact reduces poverty and the use of child labor, fosters women's rights, promotes respect for democratic norms, enriches culture, and even sustains the environment. |
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
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
June 1, 2001
Paul Streeten |
Integration, Interdependence, and Globalization Although many commentators say we are living in a time of unprecedented global integration, the world economy was actually more integrated at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite increasing integration in some respects, today's world is in many ways fragmented and without coordination... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Nsouli & Le Gall |
The New International Financial Architecture and Africa African countries have made progress on various elements of the new architecture, but more work is needed---in particular, to enhance transparency and accountability, implement standards and codes, and strengthen financial systems. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Burton & Zanello |
Asia Ten Years After A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list. |
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
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
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
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
March 1, 2007
Yaga Venugopal Reddy |
Point of View: Converting a Tiger The Reserve Bank of India's governor offers lessons from the country's gradualist approach to capital account convertibility. |
Finance & Development
September 2006 |
Book Reviews Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden... Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy? by Guillermo Calvo... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Gupta, Hammond, Leete, & Swanson |
Progress Toward the International Development Goals It is easy to lose track of the improvements that have occurred over time in the lives of poor people in many developing countries.... |
Finance & Development
September 2008 |
Dialogue Box F&D asked a number of opinion leaders around the world to answer the question, What's the single thing most likely to double living standards in poor countries over the next decade? |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Anoop Singh |
Asia Leading the Way Asia is moving into a leadership role in the world economy. |
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
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
December 1, 2000
Masood Ahmed & Hugh Bredenkamp |
Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response Despite developing countries' improved economic growth rates during the 1990s, poverty has remained firmly entrenched. How can developing countries, international financial institutions, and developed countries work together more effectively to reduce the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Gerd Hausler |
The Globalization of Finance Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits to national economies and to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risks and challenges for market participants and policymakers... |
Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Regaining Momentum Progress on the Millennium Development Goals has been slowed by the crisis. The rest of the world has to help. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Bannister & Thugge |
International Trade and Poverty Alleviation How does trade liberalization affect the poor, and how can they be protected against its negative short-term effects? |
Finance & Development
March 2008
David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Making a Breakthrough To accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, growth must happen in sectors that directly benefit the poor, such as agriculture. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
In brief Sovereign debt bankruptcy rules... New round of trade talks... Financing for Development conference... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Berg & Krueger |
Lifting All Boats: Why Openness Helps Curb Poverty It is important to assess the quality of the evidence regarding the links between openness, growth, and poverty reduction. This article provides a critical survey of recent studies. |
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
September 1, 2001
David Dollar & Aart Kraay |
Trade, Growth, and Poverty How has many developing countries' increased participation in international trade affected their economic growth rates, and what implications has this had for the international distribution of income and the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
A Bigger Slice of a Growing Pie Developing the financial sector accelerates economic growth and can enhance income equality. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
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
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. |
