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  • Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo ...
    Series series Africa: Policies for Prosperity
    Low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa present unique monetary policy challenges, from the high share of volatile food in consumption to underdeveloped financial markets; however most academic and policy work on monetary policy is aimed at much richer countries. Can economic models and methods invented for rich countries even be adapted and applied here? How does and should monetary policy ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Confronting Inequality

    How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

    by Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, Andrew Berg ...
    Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this increase in inequality has in fact been a political choice—and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Confronting Inequality

    How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

    by Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, Andrew Berg ...
    Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this increase in inequality has in fact been a political choice—and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Government Finance

    by Brian Romanchuk ...
    The government budget is not like a household budget. This report introduces the financial operations used by a central government with a free-floating currency, and explains how they differ from that of a household or corporation. The focus is on what constraints such a government faces, and explains why such governments only face a limited risk of involuntary default.It introduces a simplified ... Read more

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  • Business Cycles and Equilibrium

    by Fischer Black ...
    An updated look at what Fischer Black's ideas on business cycles and equilibrium mean todayThroughout his career, Fischer Black described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book, which is one of only two books Black ever wrote, he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Economics

    by Nigar Hashimzade, Gareth Myles, John Black ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This authoritative and comprehensive dictionary contains clear, concise definitions of approximately 3,500 key economic terms. Covering all aspects of economics including economic theory and policy, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, labour economics, public economics and public finance, monetary economics, and environmental economics, this is the essential reference work in this area. The ... Read more

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  • Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets

    by Peter J. Montiel ...
    The macroeconomic experience of emerging and developing economies has tended to be quite different from that of industrial countries. Compared to industrial countries, emerging and developing economies have tended to be much more unstable, with more severe boom/bust cycles, episodes of high inflation and a variety of financial crises. This textbook describes how the standard macroeconomic models ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Sovereign Risk Analysis (RLE Banking & Finance)

    by Shelagh Heffernan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
    Directed both at students of international finance and practitioners in the field, the book stresses the importance of treating the analysis of sovereign risk in a more general framework than is typically the case, identifying the components of both the demand and supply of sovereign loans.The author also discusses the link between the unique aspects of sovereign lending, the interdependence of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • South African Economy

    Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term

    by Peter Brixen, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    What are the macroeconomic prospects for South Africa until the new millennium? Two methods of macroeconomic modelling, associated with the World Bank and IMF, are used here to generate three scenarios, based on moderately optimistic projections. The methodology used can be applied to other developing countries. ... Read more

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  • Japan's Lost Decade: Policies for Economic Revival

    by Tim Mr. Callen, Jonathan Mr. Ostry ...
    Japan’s weak economic performance in the 1990s has had implications not only for its own people, but for the world economy more generally, given Japan’s importance as a trading partner and supplier of capital. Therefore, it is essential that Japan unlock its growth potential. The IMF has worked with the Japanese authorities to identify the policies needed to bring Japan’s economy out of its recent ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Post-Bubble Blues: How Japan Responded to Asset Price Collapse

    by Tamim Mr. Bayoumi, Charles Mr. Collyns ...
    What caused Asia's largest economy, once the envy of the world, to lag behind many of the other industrial countries? And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late 1980s? In this volume, a team from the International Monetary Fund examines the causes of the lingering economic problems of Japan, the crisis in its banking system, the reasons ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD