Product Description: Security concerns, the AIDS epidemic, environmental degradation, and financial contagion are salient features of today's landscape of threats to global stability. A characteristic of these challenges is that they cannot be solved by individual nations acting alone...read more

Product Description: Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this comprehensive volume consists of an overview of current FDI research. While the term 'integrating' is often used, the real test should be whether FDI is instrumental in bringing per capita incomes across countries closer together...read more

Product Description: Research work by the IMF's staff on the effectiveness of the country programs the organization supports, which has long been carried out, has intensified in recent years. IMF analysts have sought to open up the black box by more closely examining program design and implementation, as well as how these influence programs' effectiveness...read more

Product Description: In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions...read more

'Having smoothly acceded to the European Union (EU) in May 2004, the overarching objective for the EU's new member states is to continue raising living standards to Western European levels. This Occasional Paper examines the progress toward income convergence achieved by the EU's eight Central and Eastern European countries thus far, the prospects for further income convergence over the medium term, and the policy challenges that these countries will face in facilitating the catch-up process' -- vii.

Product Description: This book is based on a global public policies and programs workshop held in July 2000. The papers examine conceptual issues along with the practical implementation problems of global public policies and programs. Some of the topics covered in this book are global financial instability, the implications of intellectual property rights protection for developing countries, and the promotion of international agricultural research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on the principles of and practical approaches to addressing the public policy trade-off involved in systemic corporate and financial sector crises and the lessons learned from the changes taking place in bankruptcy frameworks around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Technological change, advances in regulatory design, and the evolution of financial markets are prompting governments to move away from their domination of infrastructure delivery and allow greater opportunities for private enterprise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Analyzes the dynamics of international production location and trade. The authors see a battle between cheap robots and cheap human labor in the coming decades. To analyze this tension, they examine three industries: garments and textiles, semiconductors, and automobiles...read more