Finance & Development

THE IMF-World Bank 2006 Annual Meetings in September will be held in Singapore, one of the financial centers...

With less than a decade remaining to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while considerable progress has been...

More often than we imagine, data used by economists come from surveys. Apart from variables on institutions, public...

Under pressure from soaring oil prices and growing environmental constraints, momentum is gathering for a major switch from...

June 9-13, Vancouver, Canada World Urban Forum III July 3-5, Geneva, Switzerland High-Level Meeting of the United Nations...

ECONOMICS made Paul Krugman famous. Punditry has made him a celebrity, famous for being famous. But Krugman aspires...

ASIA, the world's largest continent with nearly three-fifths of its population, has undergone a remarkable transformation over the...

ASIA has become a key part of the global economy, boasting three of the ten largest economies (China,...

THE HOPE of better risk sharing, more efficient allocation of capital, more productive investment, and, ultimately, higher standards...

AS ONE of the fastest growing regions in the world--with the highest savings--Asia appears to have a bright...

JAPAN is on the move again, and it seems for real this time. Over the past year or...

THE CENTER of gravity of the global economy is shifting toward China and India. With combined populations accounting...

THE BUILDUP of large current account surpluses in Asia since the 1997-98 financial crisis has focused attention on...

IN 1950, Latin America was the most developed region outside the industrial countries, with an average real GDP...

HEDGE FUNDS may have an aura of exoticism and modernism, but their goals are as old as the...

ECONOMIC growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is forecast to be above 5 percent in 2006 for the third...

IN THE 1957 Treaty of Rome, the founding fathers of the European Union (EU) set out to create...

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Cambridge University Press, 2005, 540 pp., $28.00 (hardcover). Daron Acemoglu and James...

Give Us Your Best and Brightest Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C., 2005, 246 pp., $22.95 (paperback). Devesh...

Global Governance of Financial Systems The International Regulation of Systemic Risk Oxford University Press, 2006, 328 pp., $45.00...