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Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Alfred Schipke |
Building on CAFTA How the free trade pact can help foster Central America's economic integration.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Maureen Lewis |
A War Chest for Fighting HIV/AIDS With billions of dollars mobilized, the challenge is how to spend the money wisely in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Conny Lotze |
Economics with a Social Face An interview with development economist Nora Lustig, long-time advocate of employing social policies in the battle against poverty, on the need to focus on systemic problems that keep the poor and disadvantaged from advancing economically and the economies from realizing their full potential.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Dilip Ratha |
Remittances: A Lifeline for Development Governments have often offered incentives to increase remittance flows and to channel them to productive uses. But such policies are more problematic than efforts to expand access to financial services or reduce transaction costs.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 |
Sending Money Home: Trends in Migrant Remittances Over the past fifteen years, international migrant remittances have become increasingly prominent -- with $167 billion flowing to developing countries. Survey data show that remittances have reduced the poverty headcount ratio significantly in several low-income countries.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan |
Aid and Growth: The Policy Challenge The best way to get the poor in low-income countries out of poverty is to strengthen economic growth in those countries. But we need more than aid to break the cycle of poverty.  |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 |
Country Focus: Peru In recent years, Peru has enjoyed robust growth thanks to sound macroeconomic policies, significant progress with structural reforms, and a favorable external environment. Here are charts showing supporting data.  |
InternetNews December 1, 2005 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Back to Resistance The indexes once again neared important levels Thursday.  |
Geotimes December 2005 William L. Fisher |
Energy Outlook 2005 Analysts say political events and natural disasters might well interrupt world oil supplies, but lack of resources and production capability should not. Beyond oil, other energy sources will be creating their own economies in the near future.  |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Energy Gas Prices Keep Rising... Congress Passes Energy Bill...  |
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