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  New financial architecture as a global public good

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This paper regards international financial stability and efficiency as very important public good, especially for developing countries.
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  Financial crises and poverty in emerging market economies

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This study analyses the impact of the principal financial crises on the incidence of poverty in emerging markets. The growth impact is first identified by comparing average per capita growth in the two years prior to the crisis to that in the crisis year and the following year.
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  An analysis of the role of social safety net scholarships in reducing school drop-out during the Indonesian economic crisis

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2000

  This paper uses regression and matching techniques to evaluate Indonesia’s Social Safety Net Scholarships Programme.The scholarships programme was developed to try to prevent large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis.
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  Searching for an appropriate exchange rate regime

  Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2001

  This paper surveys the debates on which exchange rate is most suitable for emerging market economies.Most East Asian economies prior to the crisis followed a soft peg exchange rate system.
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  Reform of the international financial system and institutions in the light of the Asian financial crisis

  Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2000

  This paper investigates the financial reforms initiated in the light of the Asian crisis. The liberalization of the financial sector without first establishing an adequate system of financial supervision and surveillance was considered to be a major factor leading to the crisis.
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  The policy roots of economic crisis and poverty: a multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2001

  The report documents a systematic weakening of the productive capacity of the countries implementing Bank policies and the inability of these countries to generate productive employment at a living wage.
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  Currency crises: theoretical and empirical overview of the 1990s

  Croatian National Bank, Croatia, 2001

  This paper provides an overview of currency crises theories, methods for crises prediction, implications of currency crises for economic policy, as well as different currency crises episodes in the 1990s, namely the Asian, Russian and Brazilian financial crises.The theoretical models of currency crises can be divided into three generations of models:first-generation models, first found
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  The economic crisis and child labour in Indonesia

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2000

  The economic crisis has imposed a tremendous burden on households in Indonesia but much of the cost of adjustment among children has been hidden from public scrutiny.This paper reviews the impact of the financial and economic crisis on child workers in Indonesia and discusses government responses to the crisis and policy initiatives which the government, international agencies and NGOs might co
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  Prospects for financial sector reform in the context of regional integration in SADC

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  This paper looks at the role that SADC can realistically play in developing the financial systems of the countries of Southern Africa.
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  Emerging from a debt trap in a crisis-ridden country: lessons from Zimbabwe

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Is Zimbabwe's experience symptomatic of a structural adjustment programme (SAP) or is simply a result of 'local' mismanagement? This paper attempts to show that, while the last of these reasons predominates, there are lessons to be drawn by a wider audience. Paper reviews the origins of the debt problem in Zimbabwe, and considers whether Zimbabwean debt is sustainable.

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