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• Access to Trade Finance in Times of Crisis
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Trade finance has long been an important component of international financial flows. Firms in emerging market economies, in particular, rely heavily on bank-financed trade credits to support their export and import activities.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Vol. 4
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: The Legal Department and the Institute of the IMF held their ninth biennial seminar for legal advisors of IMF member countries’ central banks, and the papers published in this volume are based on presentations made by officials attending this seminar.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Vol. 5
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: The main theme of Volume 5 in this series is law and financial stability. The chapters cover many topics that enhance the reader's understanding of financial stability, as well as the many instruments available to promote it.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Volume 6: Restoring Financial Stability--The Legal Response
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: “Restoring Financial Stability-The Legal Response” is the theme of the sixth volume of “Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law.
• Dollars, Debt, and Deficits: Sixty Years After Bretton Woods
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: This book examines the challenges facing the international monetary and financial system, as well as the future role of the Bretton Woods institutions in addressing those challenges.
• India's and China's Recent Experience with Reform and Growth
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: China and India already rank among the world's largest economies, and each is moving rapidly toward the center stage of the global economy. In this process, different priorities have been placed on economic reforms over the past two decades?
• Procyclicality of Financial Systems in Asia
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: The procyclicality of financial systems has received an increasing amount of attention from policymakers, academics, and international organizations in recent years.
• Rapid Credit Growth in Central and Eastern Europe: Endless Boom or Early Warning?
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: This volume represents the latest developments and policy debate on a very current issue: the rapid growth of banking sector credit to the private sector, which continues to occupy the minds of academics and policymakers alike in many central and eastern European (CEE) countries.
• Real Estate Indicators and Financial Stability
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Real Estate Indicators and Financial Stability
• Regulatory Frameworks for Hawala and Other Remittance Systems
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Hawala and other remittance systems have gained attention in recent years with the substantial growth of remittance flows from countries with large migrant labor forces and with increased focus on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
• Rules-Based Fiscal Policy in Emerging Markets: Background, Analysis, and Prospects
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Inspired by the experience of some advanced economies and to enhance creditworthiness, recently a number of emerging market economies adopted rules limiting government deficits, expenditures, or indebtedness.
• The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid: Opportunities and Pitfalls
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Relatively slow progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 target date has added urgency to the challenge of reducing global poverty.
• Working Together: Improving Regulatory Cooperation and Information Exchange
  • Published: December 31, 2016
  • Summary: Globalization requires enhanced information flows among financial regulators. Standard-setting bodies for financial sector regulation provide extensive guidance, but financial sector assessments have often found that problems in cooperation and information exchange continue to constrain cross-border
• A Decade of Transition: Achievements and Challenges
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: This volume reviews the experience of 25 non-Asian transition economies 10 years into their transformation to market economies. The volume is based on an IMF conference held in February 1999 in Washington, D.C.
• Capacity Building, Governance, and Economic Reform in Africa
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: This volume, edited by Michel A. Dessart and Roland E. Ubogu, records the presentations made and discussions held during the Inaugural Seminar of the Joint Africa Institute (JAI).
• Challenges to Central Banking from Globalized Financial Systems
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: Increasing global financial market integration is presenting new challenges to central banks as they seek to attain low inflation and financial stability. This volume is based on a conference hosted by the IMF in September 2002.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Vol. 3
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: The Legal Department and the Institute of the IMF held their eighth biennial seminar for legal advisers of central banks of member countries on May 7-17,2000. The papers presented in this volume are based on presentations made by the seminar participants.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Vol. 1
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: The papers published in this volume are based on an IMF seminar held in 1988 covering a broad range of topics dealing with monetary and financial law.
• Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Volume 2
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: The papers published in this volume are based on an IMF seminar held in 2000 that covered a broad range of topics on monetary and financial law, such as the liberalization of capital movements, data dissemination, responsibilities of central banks, and the IMF’s goals in financial surveillance and a
• Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: Eight central and eastern European countries--the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia--officially joined the European Union (EU) in May 2004.
• Financial Risks, Stability, and Globalization
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: This book covers financial sector stability issues in the following areas: risk management and governance in financial institutions; financial crises and contagion; domestic monetary and financial policies; and international cooperation.
• IMF-Supported Programs: Recent Staff Research
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: 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.
• Korean Crisis and Recovery
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: Edited by David T. Coe and Se-Jik Kim, this volume contains papers presented at a May 2001 conference in Seoul sponsored by the IMF and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy on the Korean Crisis and Recovery.
• New Partnership for Africa's Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Poverty
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: Adopted in 2001, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) represents a new vision to place African countries on a path toward poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and full integration in the world economy.
• The Low-Income Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Progress and Challenges in Transition
  • Published: December 30, 2016
  • Summary: The CIS-7 Initiative was launched in 2002 and endorsed by ministers from the CIS-7 and donor countries, with the objective of promoting poverty reduction, economic growth, and debt sustainability among the seven poorest countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).