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Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dadush, Dasgupta, & Ratha |
The Role of Short-Term Debt in Recent Crises The 1990s witnessed a boom in short-term lending by international banks to developing countries that lasted until Asia's financial crisis erupted in 1997. By 1997, nearly 60 percent of all outstanding international bank claims on developing countries had a remaining maturity of less than one year.   |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000 |
Book reviews Mancur Olson - Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships.. Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham - New Markets, New Opportunities?: Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World... Courtney N. Blackman - Central Banking in Theory and Practice: A Small State Perspective... Jacques Bendelac - L'economie palestinienne: De la dependance a l'autonomie... |
AskMen.com
December 17, 2000
Ric Poupada |
Are We On The Brink Of Recession? The purpose of this article is not to turn a blind eye to a potential risk of recession nor is it to serve as a doomsayer. Rather, the hypothesis is to determine that economic factors go in cycles, and that we are experiencing a natural evolution of this economic cycle... |
Salon.com
December 6, 2000
Merrill Goozner |
The economic scaremongers With all the negative buzz in the media and from the Bush campaign, you'd have thought we were headed straight into another Great Depression. Not so fast... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Dalton Conley |
A free market election failure Iowa economists gambled that they could predict the presidential election. They lost... |
Salon.com
October 31, 2000
Elizabeth Arens |
Rational irrationality Don't blame crazy investors for the stock market's wild ups and downs; they're just being sensible... |
Inc.
October 15, 2000
Martha E. Mangelsdorf |
Follow the Numbers What the characteristics of the 2000 Inc. 500, Inc.'s list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, reveal about trends in the national economy... |
IDB America
Jul/Aug 2000 |
Economic growth and social equity Mexican finance secretary Jose Angel Gurria shows that economic efficiency and social efficiency can be achieved simultaneously... |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Steve Kettmann |
In praise of a weak euro Why the nonstop decline in the value of its currency doesn't spell doom for the European Community... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay |
Taking Stock Economic performance has differed widely among the transition economies. The best performers are countries that were the most committed to reform at the start and that have carried out reforms rapidly and consistently. |
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