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“daniel mcdowell”

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  • Bucking the Buck

    US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash against the Dollar

    by Daniel McDowell ...
    The US dollar is the world's indispensable currency. The dollar's preeminent status gives the United States enormous coercive powers which it flexes in the form of financial sanctions to punish its adversaries. Over the last twenty years, Washington has relied on financial sanctions with greater and greater frequency. Bucking the Buck argues that the more the United States wields the dollar as a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?

    The United States, the IMF, and the International Lender of Last Resort

    by Daniel McDowell ...
    Conventional wisdom says that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) functions as the de facto international lender of last resort (ILLR) for the global financial system. However, that premise is incomplete. Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how the U.S. has for decades regularly complemented the Fund's ILLR role by selectively providing billions of dollars in emergency loans to foreign ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Death of Money

    The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

    by James Rickards ...
    The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.The U.S. dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of World War II. If the dollar fails, the entire international monetary system will fail with it. But optimists ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Improving Municipal Management For Cities To Succeed: An Ieg Special Study

    by World Bank ...
    Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities have benefitted from 190 World Bank-supported MDPs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The People’s Money

    How China Is Building a Global Currency

    by Paola Subacchi ...
    Many of the world's major economies boast dominant international currencies. Not so for China. Its renminbi has lagged far behind the pound, the euro, and the dollar in global circulation—and for good reason. China has long privileged economic policies that have fueled development at the expense of the renminbi's growth, and it has become clear that the underpowered currency is threatening China's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

    by International Monetary Fund ...
    Series Book 183 - Occasional Papers
    This occasional paper provides an overview of the economic reform experiences of the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union since their independence at the turn of the decade. The choice of countries reflects not only a geographical grouping, but also similarities in the types of transition challenges faced by these countries notwithstanding considerable variations in their sizes, ethnic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Managing Country Risk

    A Practitioner's Guide to Effective Cross-Border Risk Analysis

    by Daniel Wagner ...
    What would you do if a law that enabled your investment to operate successfully abroad suddenly changed, and your business could no longer operate profitably there? Imagine exporting goods to a government buyer only to discover after the fact that your home country, or the United Nations, has just imposed an embargo on that country. Managing Countr ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Frontier Investor

    How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets

    by Marko Dimitrijević ...
    Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? Veteran investor Marko Dimitrijevic argues that they can be found in frontier markets, which account for seventy-one of the world's seventy-five fastest-growing economies and 19 percent of the world's GDP. Yet many investors ignore them. Fueled by new access to technology and information, frontier markets are emerging even faster than ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Fiscal Monitor, April 2018

    Capitalizing on Good Times

    by International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. ...
    The April 2018 edition of Fiscal Monitor is focused on two broad themes: the burden of high global debt and the opportunities and challenges of digital government. Chapter 1 explores how strong and broad-based growth provides an opportunity to rebuild fiscal buffers now, improve government balances, and anchor public debt. One concern is the surge in global debt, which reached the record peak of ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform

    by R. Mr. Johnston, Piroska Mrs. Nagy, Roy Mr. Pepper, Mauro Mr. Mecagni, Ratna Ms. Sahay, Mario Mr. Bléjer, Richard Mr. Hides ...
    Series Book 98 - Occasional Papers
    This study reviews Albania's historical and political background, as well as economic developments in 1991. It describes the centrally planned economic system up to the onset of reform and analyzes economic performance in the 1980s. ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications

    by Benedict J. Mr. Clements, Trevor Serge Coleridge Mr. Alleyne, Carlo A. Mr. Sdralevich, David Coady, Stefania Ms. Fabrizio, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta ...
    Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. Although they are aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital-intensive industries, reducing ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Remittance Markets in Africa

    by Mohapatra,Sanket; Ratha,Dilip ...
    Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa however remain less ... Read more

    $21.59 USD