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Bank activity: Clausen assumes presidency of Bank; China to develop science and engineering education system with Bank and IDA assistance; Colombia receives help for power and irrigation sectors. Bank loans and IDA credits »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1981
Volume/Issue: 18/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1981
ISBN: 9781616353469
Keywords: development banking, banking, drainage, irrigation
This paper discusses the appointment of A. W. Clausen as the new World Bank president. Mr. Clausen, 57, joined the Bank of America in 1949 as a trainee just out of the University of Minnesota law school and rose to...

Trade Liberalization in the Caribbean »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2000
Volume/Issue: 37/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
ISBN: 9781451952827
Keywords: anticorruption, systemic corruption, anticorruption efforts, anticorruption measures, fight against corruption
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...

Recent Activity–International Monetary Fund »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1972
Volume/Issue: 9/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1972
ISBN: 9781616353100
Keywords: pollution, population growth, population problem, demographers, world population
This paper describes what the limits to growth are. The paper highlights that many critical variables in global society-particularly population and industrial production-have been growing at a constant percentage r...

Making Anticorruption Agencies More Effective »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2000
Volume/Issue: 37/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
ISBN: 9781451952827
Keywords: anticorruption, systemic corruption, anticorruption efforts, anticorruption measures, fight against corruption
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...

Recent Activity—International Monetary Fund »
Source: Finance & Development, June 1966
Volume/Issue: 3/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 1966
ISBN: 9781616352820
Keywords: sid, political authorities, society for international development, political leaders
This paper discusses the study on development planning conducted by a small group within the World Bank. The study reveals that most countries not only encounter the same planning problems, they make the same mista...

The Inequality Trap: Why equity must be central to development policy »
Source: Finance & Development, December 2005
Volume/Issue: 42/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2005
ISBN: 9781451954050
Keywords: remittances, photography, facsimile, development impact of remittances, impact of remittances
This paper reviews the resurgence of Latin America. The paper highlights that much of the region has witnessed a swift and robust recovery from the successive financial crises of 2001-02. Within two years, the regi...

The Fund Meeting »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1972
Volume/Issue: 9/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1972
ISBN: 9781616353100
Keywords: pollution, population growth, population problem, demographers, world population
This paper describes what the limits to growth are. The paper highlights that many critical variables in global society-particularly population and industrial production-have been growing at a constant percentage r...

Staff Papers Supplement Dec-84 »
Source: IMF Staff Papers Supplement
Volume: 31
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1984
ISBN: 9781451947274
Keywords: monetary fund, international economics, future, poverty, investment
...

The Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocationon Economic Growth »
Source: The Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocationon Economic Growth
Volume/Issue: 2000/104
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Helene Poirson Ward
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2000
ISBN: 9781451852752
Keywords: Growth, labor reallocation, labor efficiency, labor productivity, labor force, labor share
This study seeks to explain economic growth differences in an aggregate production function framework, where labor reallocation from agriculture to modern sectors influences labor efficiency growth. The econometric...

The Mexican Financial Crisis »
Source: The Mexican Financial Crisis : A Test of the Resilience of the Markets for Developing Country Securities
Volume/Issue: 1995/132
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Shogo Ishii , and David Andrew
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1995
ISBN: 9781451855326
Keywords: bond issues, bond, bonds, international bond issues, international bond
This paper reviews developments in private capital flows to developing countries since the Mexican financial crisis in December 1994. The paper points out that a strong recovery in these flows masks some significan...