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September 1, 2000
Janos Kornai |
Making the Transition to Private Ownership When the former centrally planned economies began the transition to a market economy one decade ago, there was strong disagreement on the best way to carry out ownership reform. 10 years into transition, experience has proved that organic development was the best strategy.   |
Finance & Development
September 2006 |
Book Reviews Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden... Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy? by Guillermo Calvo... etc. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The International Financial Architecture: What's New? What's Missing? by Peter B. Kenen... Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future by Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap... Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc by Anders Aslund... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay |
Taking Stock Economic performance has differed widely among the transition economies. The best performers are countries that were the most committed to reform at the start and that have carried out reforms rapidly and consistently. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
Christian Keller & Peter S. Heller |
Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries Transition countries need to reform their social sectors to promote the welfare of their citizens and spur economic growth. In part, this means building up and redesigning social safety nets and addressing problems. It also requires cutting some benefits and privileges... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Emine Gurgen |
Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects Although the five Central Asian countries in transition have made progress in moving to a market economy, they still have far to go and need to intensify their reform efforts. |
Finance & Development
December 2005 |
Book Reviews The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade... The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace... etc. |
Reason
September 2004
Prakash Loungani |
Globalization Without Tears The book In Defense of Globalization tries to show that major complaints about the adverse social effects of globalization are mistaken. Globalization in fact reduces poverty and the use of child labor, fosters women's rights, promotes respect for democratic norms, enriches culture, and even sustains the environment. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
Finance & Development
March 2007 |
Book Reviews The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond... Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Florence Jaumotte |
Fixing the Flaws in EMU The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking |
Finance & Development
December 2006 |
Book Reviews Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen... Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development by Hilton Root... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000 |
Book reviews Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman evaluates the reforms of the 1990s... Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman both inspirational and educational... |
Reason
March 2002
Brink Lindsey |
Social Insecurity Why an increasing number of countries are turning to market-based pension plans... |
Reason
December 2001
Brink Lindsey |
The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy How nationalism, protectionism, and collectivism spawned a century of dictatorship and war... |
Finance & Development
June 2007 |
Book Reviews Harnessing the market... A wakeup call for Europe... How news affects sovereign spreads... etc. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Mandel & Dunham |
Can Anyone Steer This Economy? Global forces have taken control of the economy. And government, regardless of party, will have less influence than ever |
Finance & Development
March 2008
John Odling-Smee |
Book Reviews Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, is the new book by Barry Eichengreen, a leader in the field of international monetary history. The theme of this compact and engrossing book is that history suggests that the current situation is unlikely to last for long. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Kose et al. |
Financial Globalization: Beyond the Blame Game A new way of looking at financial globalization -- the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows -- reexamines its costs and benefits. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 12, 2014
Sean Silverthorne |
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization Why is the firm overlooked as a contributor when we identify the drivers of globalization? Geoffrey Jones discusses his new book, Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Lipschitz et al. |
The Domestic Solution Can China's growth be sustained through good-neighbor policies? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000 |
Books By Amartya Sen, Jagdish Bhagwati, and Dana Frank |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Raj Desai & Itzhak Goldberg |
Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma Over the past decade, Russia's efforts to achieve economic growth and restructure its economy have been seriously hampered by a dearth of investment and the proliferation of barter and arrears. Given current conditions, how might Russian economic reform efforts best be supported? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Pradeep K. Mitra & Marcelo Selowsky |
Lessons from a Decade of Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. Reducing barriers to entry is not enough -- hard budget constraints must also be imposed on the old money-losing state-owned enterprises. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2006
Anthony Annett |
Reform in Europe: What Went Right? Successful economic and social reformers can offer valuable lessons for the rest of the EU. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Boughton & Bradford |
Global Governance: New Players, New Rules The financial turbulence of 2007 illustrates -- not for the first time -- both the benefits and the risks of financial globalization. Here's why the 20th-century model needs a makeover. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Berglof et al. |
A Tale of Two Crises Russia is still a resource-dependent economy that must diversify in a market-friendly way |
Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000 |
Books Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation... The Lexus and the Olive Tree... Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty... The Future of the Electronic Marketplace... The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy... Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund, Second Edition... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Roger Bootle |
Redrawing the Boundaries We do need to fix the financial markets, and that means, in a variety of ways, a bigger role for government. But we do not need bigger government. Or, except in relation to the powers of corporate executives, do we need to fix the market economy in general. |
Reason
July 2001
Mario Vargas Llosa |
Global Village or Global Pillage? Why we must create a universal culture of liberty... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
Reason
December 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Poor Man's Hero Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Mohamed Daouas |
Africa Faces Challenges of Globalization |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Czechmate, Or the Pitfalls of Rapid Privatization in Emerging Economies In his forthcoming book, Gerald McDermott offers a new explanation for why the Czech Republic and other emerging markets, which try to eliminate state involvement and undergo rapid mass privatization, may achieve only short-term or illusory economic success... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
de la Torre & Schmukler |
Small Fish, Big Pond What is the future for developing country capital markets in a globalized economy? |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2006
Ann Cullen |
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance A discussion about the implications and the historical roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Bakker & Gulde |
Searching for Stability Eastern Europe rode a decade-long boom into a serious bust and now must figure out how to restart growth on a more even keel. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Seyni N'Diaye |
The Role of Institutional Reforms ...It is precisely from this restrictive regulatory framework that African countries must extricate themselves if they are to realize their true potential in the global economy... |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Lester Thurow Lester Thurow is a Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics at MIT |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Burton & Zanello |
Asia Ten Years After A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Giuliano et al. |
Free Governments, Good Policies Economic reforms may scare politicians, but democracy and economic liberalization generally go hand in hand. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 16, 2011 |
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History The editors of Harvard Business School's Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, are challenging historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business. |
