Finance Development December 2018

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484386194

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Finance & Development, December 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

This paper focuses on overcoming fears of technology and globalization means rethinking the rights and obligations of citizenship. While the causes of our discontent vary, they all point to the need to revitalize politics, economics, and social contract to provide citizens with a greater sense of security and confidence in the face of impending changes. The backlash highlights the need for a new social contract, one that adapts to changed economic realities and better manages the social implications of globalization. The social contract includes the payment of taxes in exchange for public goods, and the way that society looks after the old, the young, the infirm, and those who have fallen on hard times. Countries with greater social mobility grow faster because they more effectively match people to the right jobs. Another way to address inequality would be to put a floor under incomes, which would help ensure that even low-wage earners can enjoy a reasonable standard of living.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781484368855

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Finance & Development, September 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

This paper discusses that from shifting demographics to climate change, Southeast Asia confronts a host of challenges. Summoning them will require both resilience and flexibility. Advances in artificial intelligence, including robotics, together with innovations such as 3-D printing and new composite materials, will transform manufacturing processes, making them less labor-intensive while creating opportunities for new products. This will enable new ways of making things and change the drivers of competitiveness. There will be indirect effects as well. For example, aircraft manufacturers, taking advantage of new composite materials such as carbon fibers, have developed a class of superlong-haul aircraft that could bring more tourists to Southeast Asia as relatively cheap point-to-point travel options emerge. The region should still enjoy synergies from globalization and other modes of economic integration, but the form and shape of such integration could change. For Southeast Asia, the next couple of decades could prove exhilarating in terms of the opportunities presented by technology and global growth, but also tumultuous because of the continuing risks, such as those posed by an unreformed and unstable international financial architecture. There clearly is much hard work to be done. Policymakers still have not gotten everything right, but they are heading in the right direction.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484354292

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International Financial Statistics, December 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. Pdf

International Financial Statistics, Database & Browser, December 2018

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484343418

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Finance & Development, March 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

This issue focuses on recent experiences that holds lessons for when to tackle debt and when not to. Growth is picking up, and the IMF has been ratcheting up its forecasts. Government coffers are filling and, with more people at work, demand for public social support is receding. Research shows that the stimulatory effect of fiscal expansion is weak when the economy is close to capacity. Low-income economies may be at greatest risk. Traditionally, they borrowed from official creditors at below-market rates. Higher global rates could divert precious budget resources to debt servicing from crucial infrastructure projects and social services. Raising budget balances toward their medium-term targets can be achieved at little cost to economic activity. Growth-enhancing infrastructure investments and crucial social services such as health and education should be maintained. Well-designed fiscal policy can address inequality and stimulate growth.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484357415

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Finance & Development, June 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

This paper focuses on smart policies that can alleviate the short-term pain of technological disruption and pave the way for long-term gain. As computing power improves dramatically and more and more people around the world participate in the digital economy, care should be taken about how to devise policies that will allow us to fully exploit the digital revolution’s benefits while minimizing job dislocation. Digital technology will spread further, and efforts to ignore it or legislate against it will likely fail. Even with short-term dislocations, reorganizing the economy around revolutionary technologies generates huge long-term benefits. The digital revolution should be accepted and improved rather than ignored and repressed. Given the global reach of digital technology, and the risk of a race to the bottom, there is a need for policy cooperation like that of global financial markets and sea and air traffic. The history of earlier general-purpose technologies demonstrates that even with short-term dislocations, reorganizing the economy around revolutionary technologies generates huge long-term benefits.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1323216511

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Finance and Development, December 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

Author : Juan Antonio Morales,Paul Reding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192597021

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Monetary Policy in Low Financial Development Countries by Juan Antonio Morales,Paul Reding Pdf

Monetary Policy in Low Financial Development Countries provides a broad coverage of the monetary policy issues faced by developing countries with low financial depth. These low and lower middle income countries are characterized by the predominance of bank finance, shallow financial markets, low financial inclusion, weak integration with world capital markets, and a high degree of informality in economic activity. Monetary policy acquires special twists, making it different in many aspects from the policies followed in advanced and emerging market economies. This book covers the main facets of monetary policy making, using an approach that combines discussions of theoretical arguments, of results from empirical studies and of relevant policy experiences. It presents the monetary policy instruments that central banks rely on in these countries. It assesses the specificities of their monetary transmission mechanism, i.e. the way central banks' actions affect output and prices. It evaluates the advantages, drawbacks, and challenges of the different nominal anchors they may choose from: exchange rate targeting, monetary targeting, and inflation targeting. This discussion is set against the background of the three main goals pursued by central banks: price, output, and financial stability. Particular attention is devoted to the issue of the credibility of central banks and to the trade-offs they face when external shocks, to which these countries are very vulnerable, lead to conflicts among the three goals they pursue. The authors also cover more specific topics, such as the coordination between monetary and fiscal policy, the challenges raised by dollarization, the implications of informal labour markets and of microfinance institutions for monetary policy-making, as well as the role of models for forecasting and policy evaluation by central banks.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484365632

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Finance & Development, June 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

Finance & Development, June 2018

Author : United Nations DESA
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210479196

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Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development 2019 by United Nations DESA Pdf

The Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2019 assesses the global economic context for development financing, highlighting growing global risks and challenges, and the need for collective action to create a more enabling international environment. This global context chapter is complemented by a thematic chapter focused on national financing frameworks for the SDGs – laying out actions that countries can take to finance their national strategies and plans and implement the Addis Agenda at the country level. The remainder of the report assesses progress in the seven action areas of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

Author : Lena Rethel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429650024

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The Political Economy of Financial Development in Malaysia by Lena Rethel Pdf

Current inquiries into the political economy of financial policymaking in Malaysia tend to focus on the high-level drama of crisis politics or simply point to the limited impact of post-crisis financial reforms, given that politico-business relations have remained close. In so doing, pundits ignore a number of intriguing questions: what is the relationship between financial development and financialisation and how has it played out in the Malaysian context? And more generally: how can a country like Malaysia become significantly more financially developed, yet fail to emancipate the financial system from political control; a core element of the financial development discourse? To unravel the complexities of this puzzle, this book subjects the history and contemporary practices of financial policymaking in Malaysia to scrutiny. It argues that to understand financial development in Malaysia, its progress and reversals, it is important to conceptualise it as a political, rather than a merely technical process. In so doing, the book echoes a more profound concern in the political economy literature, namely the evolving relationship between states and markets, and the supposed retreat or reassertion of the state at a time of increasing (financial) globalisation. The book can generate further insights into the evolving role of the state with regard to broader processes of development and marketisation, as they relate specifically to finance.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484365670

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Finance & Development, June 2018 by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department Pdf

Finance & Development, June 2018

Author : Arturo Bris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000327793

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The Right Place by Arturo Bris Pdf

The Right Place explains why firms succeed in one country and fail in another, irrespective of their inner drivers, and suggests potential initiatives that governments can take to help the private sector create jobs and, consequently, make their countries more prosperous. The competitiveness race is not unlike a cycling race. If you want to ride fast, you need three things: a good bike, to be in good shape, and a smooth and fast road. In a collaborative model, you might say the business is the bicycle, the business leader is the cyclist, and the road is the government and the external environment. The responsibility of a government is to design and build the best possible road. It turns out that when the road is good, good cyclists suddenly appear and want to race on it. In this book, competition and macroeconomics expert, Arturo Bris, provides the analysis of country competitive performance based on 30 years advising countries on this topic. The typical mistakes that countries make are revealed and the pillars necessary in building a competitive economy: economic performance as a necessary condition for prosperity; government efficiency, so the public sector can create the conditions for a productive economy; business efficiency, so companies can create jobs; and infrastructure, both tangible and intangible, so businesses and individuals can operate efficiently. With contemporary case studies throughout, the book provides an illuminating read for politicians, business leaders and students of macroeconomics.

Author : Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789210049320

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Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development 2020 by Department of Economic and Social Affairs Pdf

The Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) assesses progress in implementing the commitments and actions in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Its 2020 edition puts an emphasis on digital technologies, and their potential to accelerate progress in financing for development and SDG achievement, as well as the risks and challenges they create.

Author : Ahmad, Ahmad H.,Llewellyn, David T.,Murinde, Victor
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800376380

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Inclusive Financial Development by Ahmad, Ahmad H.,Llewellyn, David T.,Murinde, Victor Pdf

Inclusive Financial Development provides theoretical and empirical analyses of the nature of financial inclusion. The contributing authors explore the impediments to inclusion that exist around the world, the macro and stability implications, and the regulation dimension.

Author : Rajendra Baikady,John Gal,Varoshini Nadesan,Sajid S.M.,Gao Jianguo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003814221

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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South by Rajendra Baikady,John Gal,Varoshini Nadesan,Sajid S.M.,Gao Jianguo Pdf

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society. It studies the concept, theories, and causes of poverty, as well as the design and delivery of social welfare policies related to specific groups, such as women, children, and the elderly. The chapters are theoretical, evidence-based, and empirical in nature and bring together a holistic understanding of social problems and issues in developing countries. The volume brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners from across the globe to develop a hands-on reference work that will be requisite for several social science disciplines concerned with poverty and the welfare of poor people. The first of its kind, the handbook will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, social work, political studies, poverty studies, population and demographic studies, sociology, social anthropology, public policy, and political economy, especially those concerned with the Global South.