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  Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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  The Asian crisis and Human Development

  East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1988

  Paper aims to analyse the nature of pro-Human Development adjustment in the five countries seriously affected by the crisis: Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The effects of the crisis on Human Development depend critically on macro-economic developments.
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  Domestic Causes of Currency Crises: Policy Lessons for Crisis Avoidance

  East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998

  Focusses on those countries with excellent macroeconomic fundamentals that recently turned from financial-market darlings to financial-crisis victims within months: Chile 1982, Mexico 1994 and now the five Asian victims.
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  World Investment Report 1997

  World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 1997

  Comprehensive analysis of international investment issues.
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  Do budgets really matter?: evidence from public spending on education and health in Uganda

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  Surveys can provide a useful reality check where institutions are weak. Certainly, budgets and official statistics are inadequate as a guide for policymakers. Ablo and Reinikka demonstrate that budget allocations alone can be misleading in explaining outcomes and making policy decisions, when institutions are weak.
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  Challenges for China’s financial reform

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Assesses the probabe effects of the Asian Financial crisis on China in the light of ongoing Chinese financial and banking reforms
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  Export growth and the exchange rate [in China]

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Since the onset of the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, China’s export growth has become a focus of many economic observers. The health of the export sector has two important implications: one for China’s overall economic growth and the other for the yuan exchange rate. The pace of economic growth has further political as well as economic implications.
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  Adjustment and Poverty in Asia: Old Solutions and New Problems

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Analyses how adjustment policies affected the poor in Asian economies, focussing on the period up to 1997. It shows that there was a significant reduction in both private income poverty and social income poverty over the previous thirty years.
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  What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998

  A few political economy variables can successfully predict the outcome of an adjustment loan 75 percent of the time. To select promising candidates for adjustment, the World Bank must do a better job of understanding which environments are promising for reform and which are not.
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  World Investment report 1998

  World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 1998

  Report documents the continuing growth of FDI which reached new record levels in 1997. Apart from standard chapters featuring FDI trends at the global and regional levels, the report covers policy developments as well as the top 100 largest TNCs world wide and the top 50 largest TNCs from developing countries.

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