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Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Einars Repse |
Latvia: Focus on Country Development Latvia has made considerable progress over the past decade in transforming its centrally planned economy into a market-oriented one. What role has its central bank played in this transition, and what steps is it taking to promote the country's continuing economic development?  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Robert A. Feldman & C. Maxwell Watson |
Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership The Central European countries have made considerable progress with the transition to a market economy and now face the challenge of developing macroeconomic policy frameworks on the road to EU accession.  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Roger Nord |
Central and Eastern Europe and the New Financial Architecture As the Central and Eastern European countries prepare to join the European Union, they are participating in worldwide efforts to strengthen the global economy...  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Barry H. Potter & Jack Diamond |
Building Treasury Systems Most OECD countries rely on treasury systems operated by their finance ministries to manage government finances. The Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union, which did not have comparable systems, are building them from scratch.  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Torsten Slok |
Can Monetary Policy Be Effective During Transition? Mongolia has undergone dramatic changes during its transition to a market economy, with fundamental restructuring in both the real economy and the financial sector. How effective is monetary policy in such a changing environment?  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Enzo Croce & Mohsin S. Khan |
Monetary Regimes and Inflation Targeting Inflation targeting---a framework for monetary policy that commits the central bank to achieving low inflation---has enjoyed considerable success among industrial countries in helping to maintain price stability...  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Paul Hilbers, Russell Krueger, & Marina Moretti |
New Tools for Assessing Financial System Soundness Macroprudential indicators--defined broadly as indicators of the health and stability of the financial system--can help countries assess their banking systems' vulnerability to crisis. In recent years, an increasing amount of work has been done on such indicators...  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Janos Kornai |
Making the Transition to Private Ownership When the former centrally planned economies began the transition to a market economy one decade ago, there was strong disagreement on the best way to carry out ownership reform. 10 years into transition, experience has proved that organic development was the best strategy.  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 |
Supplement Czech Republic: Recent Developments and Current Outlook... Fall 2000 World Economic Outlook... International Capital Markets Report... Prague to Be Venue for 2000 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings...  |
Salon.com July 17, 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Greenspan goes to Burning Man? Real-time market data comes to the playa this year, with the Stock Market Puppets.  |
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