Download or read book Strengthening the International Monetary System Taking Stock and Looking Ahead written by International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current IMS has survived for over forty years, underpinning strong growth in GDP and in the international exchange of goods and capital, one of its core objectives. As a result, interdependence among the world’s economies has grown dramatically, making the existence of a sound system ever more important. At the same time, the system has exhibited many symptoms of instability—frequent crises, persistent current account imbalances and exchange rate misalignments, volatile capital flows and currencies, and unprecedentedly large reserve accumulation. These symptoms have come to a head since the 2008 crisis and brought renewed international momentum to the idea of attempting to reform the IMS. Yet the debate so far suggests little consensus on the underlying problems, let alone on the solutions. This paper identifies four root causes to these problems: inadequate global adjustment mechanisms to prevent inconsistent or imprudent policies among systemic countries; lack a comprehensive oversight framework for growing cross-border capital flows, covering both source and recipient countries; inadequate systemic liquidity provision mechanisms; and structural challenges in the supply of safe assets.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Energy Dept. is storing at least 820 million kg of nuclear & non-nuclear materials in inventory at 44 sites in 19 states: spent nuclear fuel, plutonium, natural & enriched uranium, depleted uranium, lithium, sodium, lead, chemicals, weapons components, scrap metal & material. Three materials make up an estimated 95% of the total: depleted uranium, scrap metal, & lithium. Left unattended, much of this material could present environmental, health, or safety risks. Maintaining these materials in a safe condition costs millions of dollars/year.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by United States. Department of Energy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Stock written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comfort in Floating Taking Stock of Twenty Years of Freely Floating Exchange Rate in Chile written by Elías Albagli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chile offers an example of a country that has overcome the fear of floating by reducing balance sheet mismatches, enhancing financial market development, as well as improving monetary, fiscal, and political institutions, and strengthening policy credibility. Under the floating regime, Chile’s economic adjustment to external shocks appears significantly improved, and its exchange rate pass-through has substantially declined. Our results reinforce the case that moving to a clear and credible floating regime can be associated with a reduction in the fear of floating via economic transformation (like smaller balance sheet mismatches, a larger hedging market, and a lower exchange rate pass-through).
Download or read book Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States written by Rachel J. Halverson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the challenges facing German-language study in the new millennium and highlights how creative, innovative, inspired approaches have allowed it to weather many of them.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by Francis T. Cullen and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminology is in a period of much theoretical ferment. Older theories have been revitalized, and newer theories have been set forth. The very richness of our thinking about crime, however, leads to questions about the relative merits of these competing paradigms. Accordingly, in this volume advocates of prominent theories are asked to "take stock" of their perspectives. Their challenge is to assess the empirical status of their theory and to map out future directions for theoretical development. The volume begins with an assessment of three perspectives that have long been at the core of criminology: social learning theory, control theory, and strain theory. Drawing on these traditions, two major contemporary macro-level theories of crime have emerged and are here reviewed: institutional-anomie theory and collective efficacy theory. Critical criminology has yielded diverse contributions discussed in essays on feminist theories, radical criminology, peacemaking criminology, and the effects of racial segregation. The volume includes chapters examining Moffitt's insights on life-course persistent/adolescent-limited anti-social behavior and Sampson and Laub's life-course theory of crime. In addition, David Farrington provides a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy of the leading developmental and life-course theories of crime. Finally, Taking Stock presents essays that review the status of perspectives that have direct implications for the use of criminological knowledge to control crime. Taken together, these chapters provide a comprehensive update of the field's leading theories of crime. The volume will be of interest to criminological scholars and will be ideal for classroom use in courses reviewing contemporary theories of criminal behavior.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by Elizabeth Warren and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking stock of IFPRI s experience with country programs written by Hazell, Peter B.R. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFPRI commissioned this study to assess how the country programs (CPs) are performing—which approaches and methods are producing the best outcomes across countries and over time—to identify factors that promote or impede their progress and lessons for making them more impactful in the future. The study has two major components. The first is a survey and analysis of the factors that CP leaders perceived to have most helped them influence host-country policies. We interviewed all current and most past CP leaders, which enabled us to compile evidence from recent CP experiences as well as from the 1980s and 1990s. We focused on the lessons they drew from their past successes that shed light on how to make their other activities successful. We did not undertake similar interviews on failed efforts because it is much harder to elicit such information from CP leaders. Additional insights about unsuccessful activities are, however, captured in the second component of the study, a commissioned external evaluation of the performance of a sample of ongoing country programs. Ideally, the external evaluation would have included CPs in both Africa and Asia, but this was not possible with the available budget. We therefore settled for an evaluation of CPs in Africa south of the Sahara. Doing so had two advantages: (1) the African CPs are more homogenous in terms of their objectives, structure, and internal IFPRI management, making comparisons among them more insightful; and (2) the budget was sufficient to both include all the African CPs in some of the analyses and allow the external evaluator to visit three of them.
Download or read book Taking Stock of Air Liberalization written by Marc Gaudry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and policy analysis presented int his book. During this time, we opened discussions on the relationship between transportation technology, transportation economics and transportation policy under the general auspices of the Canadian Royal Commission on National Passenger Transportation. Working over a 40-month period (1989-1992), this Commission took stock of transportation and produced an up-to-date `État de la question' and policy framework (Hyndman, et al, 1992). Clearly, the project committee's discussions on air policy, over the period 1995-1997 (see Chapter 8), outlined the possibilities for a mechanism to understand the differences about the desirability of air liberalisation, as well as the possible TEP interactions in this area. This led to an exploratory first formulation and computer programme (HLB, 1997) incorporating the approach outlined in Chapter 15. A joint celebration of the CRT's 25th birthday and Transport Canada's 60th birthday seemed appropriate to bring together the various streams. Part I of Taking Stock of Air Liberalization looks at the record, and Part II focuses on specific impacts of policies. Policy formulation (Part III) and the required tools (Part IV - Modelling Demand) are also discussed in this context. The book ends with perspectives in Part V - The Future Market Structure and Public Policy. The competition among airlines is rapidly spreading to the competition among airports, and the difficult regulation of these strategic spatial monopolies (which is introduced in Chapter 13) is now attracting research activity. The next discussion in the airline industry will be the role of airports.
Download or read book More Work to Do Taking Stock of Latin American Labor Markets written by Mr.Antonio David and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze the performance of labor markets in Latin America since the late 1990s. Strong GDP growth during the commodity boom period led to important gains in employment and a fall in the unemployment rate as labor demand outpaced an increasing labor supply. We emphasize the role of informality in the dynamics of labor markets in Latin America. A re-examination of Okun’s law shows that informality dampens changes in unemployment accompanying output fluctuations. Moreover, we present some evidence that countries with higher redundancy costs and cumbersome dismissal regulations, exhibit “excess” informality over and above what would be expected based on their income and educational levels. Labor market reforms could thus contribute to reducing informality and increasing the responsiveness of labor markets to output growth. However, looking at selected case studies of reforms using the synthetic control method, we find mixed results in terms of labor market outcomes.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by Benjamin Blech and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title shows readers how to move toward a life view in which success is defined by spiritual clarity, not by money.
Download or read book Taking Stock 2 0 written by Julia Christensen Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New version of the publication original released in 2010 that draws on contributions by renowned educational researchers, this book 'takes stock' of teaching and learning research in higher education. Arguing for an enhanced commitment to evidence-based practice, the work offers concrete suggestions for changes on a systematic level in support of student learning. Taking Stock 2.0, we not only hear student voices, we get to learn about effective ways to invite those voices into our work more fully as teacher and researchers. This books gives an elegant and useful framework to help us make sense of virtually everything we read about teaching and learning in higher education.
Download or read book Fiscal Consolidation Taking Stock of Success Factors Impact and Design written by Vybhavi Balasundharam and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal Consolidation: Taking Stock of Success Factors, Impact, and Design
Download or read book Industrial Societies after the Stagnation of the 1970s Taking Stock from an Interdisciplinary Perspective written by Burkhard Strümpel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Industrial Societies after the Stagnation of the 1970s - Taking Stock from an Interdisciplinary Perspective".
Download or read book Taking Stock written by Canadian Centre for Management Development and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last tow decades governments have invested a great deal of time, money, and political capital in reforms to make the public sector more efficient. They have, however, invested little in evaluating the effectiveness of their efforts, accepting many of the reforms because of a belief in a particular approach to governing or an ideological commitment on the part of politicians. This collection of essays "takes stock" of these reform measures and their impact on public administration.
Download or read book Taking Stock written by Morton Keller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is American government like today? How has it changed--and how has it remained the same--over the course of the century now coming to a close? Taking Stock seeks to provide the fullest and most thoughtful answers yet offered to these questions. It brings together eminent historians and political scientists to examine the past experience, current state, and future prospects of five major American public issues: trade and tariff policy, immigration and aliens, conservation and environmentalism, civil rights, and social welfare.
