- The Exchange Rate in a Dynamic-Optimizing Current Account Model with Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation
- Robert Kollmann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- During the last 15 years, much effort was devoted to developing open-economy business cycle models with explicit microfoundations. With rare exceptions (discussed below), that literature considered models without money or in which mon...
- External Stability Under Alternative Nominal Exchange Rate Anchors: An Application to the GCC Countries
- Zubair Iqbal; Seyitali Nuri Erbas / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- All member countries of the GCC effectively peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar.* This policy has been guided by the broad objectives of minimizing exchange risks for the private sector and ensuring stable exchange rates among the...
- Real Exchange Rate Levels, Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from a Panel of 14 Countries
- Menzie Chinn; Louis Johnston / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- An Activist's Guide on how to research and campaign on transnational corporations [includes section on TNC's in India]
- Corporate Watch, 1999
- Designed to help you research information about overarching foreign investment trends, about individual TNCs, including issues such as business lines, finances, legal problems, and labor, health and safety, and environmental records, ...
- Worldwide inventory of microfinance institutions
- Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1999
- A list of nearly 1000 institutions that offer microfinancial services, serve at least 1000 clients, and were created in or before 1992 was compiled using all available sources. From this inventory, over 200 institutions responded to a...
- Zambuko Trust, Zimbabwe: case study in microfinance
- M Malhotra; P Fidler / Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1995
- The Zambuko Trust is a registered moneylender that has built a solid foundation as the most effective and potentially viable microenterprise finance institution in Zimbabwe. Already in its short five year history Zambuko has expanded ...
- The IMF and the Global Economy: implications for developing countries
- F Stewart; V. FitzGerald / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999
- The paper reviews the functioning of the IMF in relation to its own objectives, as laid down in the Articles of Agreement, and the needs of developing countries. It finds serious deficiences in its functioning as a global financial in...
- What Role for the Private Sector?: A Pragmatic Approach to EU ACP Relations
- R. Sithanen / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
- The effects of trade and foreign direct investment on employment and relative wages
- R.E. Baldwin / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- Recent developments in the international economy have given rise to concern about the effects of international trade and foreign direct investment on domestic employment and wages. These concerns include fears that: jobs are being "si...
- Microcredit in transitional economies
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- As a handbook for new microcredit programme managers, this report summarises the key building blocks of programme design and current experiences in efficient programme operations. It is organised into the following sections: Chapter 1...
- The Real Exchange Rate in India: Determinants and Targeting ( Patel / Srivastava / CEP)
- Centre for Economic Performance, London, 1997
- The paper studies the behaviour of the real exhange rate (RER) in India. The first part investigates the role of important macroeconomic (behaviour and policy) variables in explaining the movement of the RER. It is found that the inve...
- Social dimensions of adjustment: a general assessment
- Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1999
- International agreements in the area of banking and finance: accomplishments and outstanding issues (White / BIS)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Trade Flow and Foreign Direct Investment in APEC Region (Okuda / IDE)
- APEC Study Centre, 1999
- Microcredit in China: digest of externally funded projects (China Briefing)
- China Development Brief, 1999
- Must globalisation force poor countries to suffer poor air quality?
- D Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000
- This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by e...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
- Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries : is ageneralized reversal likely?
- Leonardo Hernandez; Heinz Rudolph / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Developing countries that undertake adequate domestic reform should continue to expect capital inflows, despite recent events in Mexico and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's raising of interest rates during 1994. Since 1989, pri...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
