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This volume presents an approach to financial sector reform composed of financial sector diagnosis, policy and institutional targeting, macroeconomic reforms, bank regulation and supervisory reform, and privatization. Criteria to help decision-makers apply the approach are also supplied.

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The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies.

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Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why President Nixon assigned the task of proposing reforms to his Advisory Council on Executive Organization. The object of both the Council's report and this paper is to advance the public search for reform.

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A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.

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A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms.

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Is the dream of homeownership for America's working families obsolete, an aspiration from a bygone era In Regaining the Dream, a trio of researchers from the University of North Carolina's Center for Community Capital rejects that notion.

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Considers regional development policies in the European Union - long in the forefront of regional policy - Mexico, and Canada, and shows the need for regional policy in the U.S.

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Using the experience of postwar Western Europe as a benchmark, this book assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries - often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework - finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.

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AFTA is ASEAN's response to the world-wide movement toward regional economic integration. Recent economic debate centers on measuring the impact of regional economic integration as a means of achieving persistent growth and facilitating structural adjustment.

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Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how Economic Community of West African States could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent.

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This work describes how regional integration has worked in Western Europe.

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Analyzes the US government's efforts to combat the objectionable trading practices of other countries, arguing that some US regulatory activity has acquired a political momentum of its own, in part because it offers policymakers the ends and means to aid constituents at relatively little risk.

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Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

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This collection explores debates on global capitalism and its regulation. It integrates three areas: Karl Polanyi's economic sociology, regulation studies and socio-legal studies of transnational risks.

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Top experts in the field discuss how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid, proposing practical solutions to specific problems rather than a utopian master plan.

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Following the global financial crisis of 2008, China's major monetary policy objective is the internationalization of the renminbi, that is, to create an international role for its currency akin to the international role currently played by the US dollar. This book deals with this topic.

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A study of the economic and social changes which shaped the movement for German unification. The author emphasizes the effect of industrialism on urban life, traces the decline of manorialism in agriculture and seeks to show that the political movements of these years were profoundly influenced by the economic transition from agrarianism to capitalism.

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As a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico enjoys the benefits of key U.S. legal, monetary, security, and tariff systems, and its residents are U.

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Examines issues and experiments in restructuring education, transportation, and highway services.

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Scholars in the United States and Europe, government officials, research and business institutes, and business trade associations will find this a thought provoking analysis of the progress and prospects of former Soviet republics and the lessons this provides for other republics of the former USSR.

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'Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development' is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority.

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