Product Description: This engaging and informative book covers the range of issues on which C. Fred Bergsten and the Peterson Institute have distinguished themselves over the last 25 years, including trade liberalization, exchange rate regimes, international financial architecture, debt, economic sanctions, and the impact of technology and globalization...read more

Product Description: The catastrophic crisis of late 2001 and early 2002 marks the tragic end to Argentina's initially successful, decade-long experiment with sound money and market-oriented economic reform. The IMF consistently supported Argentina's stabilization and reform efforts in the decade leading up to the current crisis, and often pointed to many of Argentina's policies as examples for other emerging market economies to emulate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This paper builds upon previous International Monetary Fund (IMF) studies on various aspects of the exchange rate arrangements of IMF member countries consistent with the IMF's role of surveillance of members' exchange rate policies and over the international monetary system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book records the proceedings of a seminar held at the IMF in March 1996 on the future of the special drawing right (SDR), given changes in the international financial system since the inception of the SDR. The seminar focuses on the differences in opinion in the international community on the desirability or feasibility of an additional allocation of SDRs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)