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  Money, politics, and a future for the international financial system

  World Bank, 2001

  This article discusses the different kinds of regulatory frameworks that exist for financial systems and a scenario for development of the world financial system that assumes a market solution.
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  Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2001

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2001

  In the context of Asia and the Pacific, this paper examines:recent economic and social developmentsglobal economic developments and implications for the ESCAP regionmacroeconomic performance, issues and policiessocio-economic implications of demographic dynamicsfinancing for developmentdomestic resource mobilisationexternal private resourcesoffic
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  Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2001

  The authors suggest that it is not the volatility of FDI per se that retards growth but that such volatility captures the growth-retarding effects of unobserved variables.
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  The Tobin Tax: how to make it real

  Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, 2001

  This Report develops a new approach to making the Tobin tax real. This could be realised in two stages:In its first phase, the system would consist of the euro-EU and a group of other countries EU.
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  Costing the casino: the real impact of currency speculation in the 1990s

  War on Want, 2001

  This article begins by discussing the negative effects short-term speculative financial activities have on the lives and economies of the citizens of developing countries. A reliance on volatile forms of short-term investment leaves the economies of developing countries exposed to sudden changes in financial markets.
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  Remarks presented to the session on "strategies for success" workshop on global taxes for global priorities

  Global Policy Forum, 2001

  This short article investigates the Tobin Tax (TT). This article deals with two essential points for the operationalisation of the Tobin Tax (TT).
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  Bank debit taxes in Latin America: an analysis of recent trends

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper investigates whether the decision by six Latin American countries, to levy taxes on withdrawals from bank accounts has been successful.
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  Intergovernmental relations and fiscal discipline: between commons and soft budget constraints

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This article looks at the benefits or otherwise of fiscal decentralisation.
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  Domestic bank regulation and financial crises: theory and empirical evidence from East Asia

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper develops a model for investigating the domestic financial intermediation of foreign capital inflows based on agency costs, for studying financial crises in emerging markets.The article finds that in equilibrium, the banking system becomes progressively more fragile under imperfect prudential regulation and public sector loan guarantees until a crisis occurs with a sudden reversal of
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  Interpreting real exchange rate movements in transition economies

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper investigates why several transition economies have experienced strong real exchange rate appreciations.

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