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Making Finance the Servant not the Master
Tony Addison Today, there is much frustration with the financial sector. Society’s precious savings are not being put to the best of uses—investing...
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Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development: Looking at the MDGs from a Different Angle?
George Mavrotas While recent years have witnessed new interest in the finance–growth nexus, the relationship between domestic resource mobilization...
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Impact of Income and Non-Income Shocks on Child LabourThis paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. Two types of shocks are considered...
Journal Special Issue
Impact of the Liberalization of the Exchange Rate and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan AfricaThis special issue of the Journal of International Development presents the results of a study initiated two years ago by UNU/WIDER on `The impact of the liberalization of the exchange rate and financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa'. The project...
Working Paper
Financial Markets and GovernmentsA survey of the changing relationship between the market for political services and the market for financial services.
Book Chapter
A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton WoodsPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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The provision of global liquidity: the global reserve systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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Capital account liberalization and managementPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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The governance of the international monetary systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic DevelopmentThe volume Institutional Change and Economic Development fills some important gaps in our understanding of the relationship between institutional changes and economic development. It does so by developing new discourses on the 'technology of...
Working Paper
Does Financial Liberalisation Improve Access to Investment Finance in Developing Countries?This paper considers the effect of financial liberalisation on access to investment finance using firm level data covering 57 developing and transition countries. An index is presented which measures financial market liberalisation along the...
Journal Article
Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety NetsPoor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms...
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Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed EconomiesThis article argues that developing countries face inherent obstacles in setting up efficient financial regulation, and building up a sound banking sector: the presence of multiple tasks and multiple principals, poor institutions, lack of economies...
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