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  Labor Market Adjustment in Canada and the United States

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Since the early 1980s, the aggregate unemployment rate in Canada has been persistently higher than that in the United States. However, existing research has failed to identify conclusively the proximate determinant for the persistent unemployment gap between these two countries.
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  International Development [and debt relief]: Select Committee on International Development Third Report, May 1998

  International Development Committee, UK, 1998

  Most important conclusions and recommendations of the Committee arising out of its inquiry into Debt Relief are [author]: Unsustainable debt is often discussed only in terms of its economic implications.
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  Bibliography on structural adjustment

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative, World Bank, 1998
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  Ghana: Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Economic and Financial Policy Framework Paper, 1998–2000

  International Monetary Fund, 1998

  This document, prepared by the Government of Ghana in collaboration with the staffs of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is the policy framework paper (PFP) for the period 1998-2000.
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  External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries - Lessons from Their Experience

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1998

  The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s.
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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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  Conditioning Debt Relief on Adjustment: Creating the Conditions for More Indebtedness

  Development Group for Alternative Policies, 1999

  Argues that there is a positive linear relationship between the number of years that countries implement adjustment programs and increases in debt levels.
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  The global economic impacts of trade and financial reform in China

  Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 1998

  Despite the setbacks from the recent Asian currency crisis, the ascendancy of Asia as an economic centre of world economic activity is likely to continue into the 21st century. A key issue that will shape the role of Asia, and indeed the shape of the world economy in the 21st century, is the economic development of China.
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  Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery

  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 1988 because of the adoption that year of the Economic Reform Programme, although actual recovery only started in 1990.

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