Economics
The International Monetary Fund and Palgrave Macmillan
New from the IMF
Performance Budgeting
Linking Funding and Results
Marc Robinson
This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims make government more effective by linking the funding of government agencies to the results they deliver. In a combination of thematic studies and case studies, it clearly presents the diverse range of contemporary performance budgeting models and examines their effectiveness. Its coverage is truly international, spanning developed, developing and middle-income countries.
Hardback September 2007 9780230553569 £80.00
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Procyclicality of Financial Systems in Asia
Stefan Gerlach and Paul Gruenwald
Procyclicality of the financial system is a feature of any normally functioning economy. However, procyclicality can sometimes become 'excessive' leading to undesired effects on the real economy. The challenge that this volume addresses is to define 'excessive' and to identify policy actions that could produce superior outcomes.
Paperback August 2007 9780230547001 £18.99
Hardback June 2006 9781403987518 £60.00
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NOW IN PAPERBACK
India's and China's Recent Experience with Reform and Growth
Wanda Tseng and David Cowen
China and India already rank among the world's largest economies, and each is moving rapidly towards the centre stage of the global economy. In this process different priorities have been placed on economic reforms in the past two decades - China taking a more outward strategy and India, until recently, a more inward one. Can they continue to rank among the fastest expanding economies? This volume, now available in paperback, addresses the issue, highlighting what has worked and what more needs to be done to ensure sustained rapid economic growth and poverty reduction.
Paperback May 2007 9780230542815 £22.99
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Hardback October 2005 9781403943514 £73.00
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Rapid Credit Growth in Central and Eastern Europe
Endless Boom or Early Warning?
Charles Enoch and Inci Ötker-Robe
Rapid credit growth has been one of the most pervasive developments in recent years in Central and Eastern Europe. The benefits of this growth are unquestioned, but so are the potential risks. While rapid credit growth is generally recognized as a potentially serious problem, there is deep uncertainty about how to tackle it. Assessing credit growth and developing appropriate policy responses continues to occupy the minds of policymakers in many of these countries and in the international organizations where this topic has been a major focus of attention for research and policymaking. This book puts together a number of revised and edited contributions that derive largely from presentations at an October 2005 conference organized jointly by the National Bank of Romania and the IMF.
Hardback February 2007 9780230521513 £68.00
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Coming Soon
Japan's Economic Revival
Policy Challenges in a Globalized World
Daniel A. Citrin and Alessandro Zanello
This book focuses on Japan's recent recovery from a decade-long stagnation, with particular attention to the unfinished policy agenda and the international spillovers of Japan's policies, through background studies (both analytical and descriptive) by IMF economists.
Hardback October 2008 9780230219328 £60.00
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Other titles in the Series
Bank Restructuring and Resolution
David S. Hoelscher
Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges
Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Aging
Keimei Kaizuka and Anne O. Krueger
Financial Dollarization
The Policy Agenda
Adrian Armas , Alain Ize and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati
Rules-Based Fiscal Policy in Emerging Market s
Background, Analysis and Prospects
George Kopits
The Macroeconomy of Central America
Robert Rennhack and Erik Offerdal
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