As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measures. Its approach to policy remains highly controversial, however. While the Fund claims it has adapted, critics allege its policies are harshly doctrinaire, imposing hardships on already poverty-stricken people. For the critics, the half century of its existence is fifty years too long' and radical change is essential. This book examines the arguments, tracing the extent of Fund adaption,...
As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countr...
The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too interventionist and creates more problems than it solves and the left on occasion demanding that it be abolished altogether. What seems almost beyond question is that the IMF needs to be reformed. Defining a future role for the IMF will always be a controversial issue, but vital to any considerations will be a measured assessment of how it has operated in the past. This excellent new book from an internationally respected expert on the IMF...
The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too i...
The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too interventionist and creates more problems than it solves and the left on occasion demanding that it be abolished altogether. What seems almost beyond question is that the IMF needs to be reformed. Defining a future role for the IMF will always be a controversial issue, but vital to any considerations will be a measured assessment of how it has operated in the past. This excellent new book from an internationally respected expert on the IMF...
The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is too i...
The Revolutionary Kant offers a new appreciation of Kant's classic, arguing that Kant's reform of philosophy was far more radical than has been previously understood. The book examines his proposed revolutionary reform -- to abandon traditional metaphysics and point philosophy in a new direction -- and contends that critics have misrepresented conflicts between Kant and his predecessors. Kant, Bird argues, was not a flawed innovator but an advocate of a new philosophical project, one that began to be appreciated only in the twentieth century.
The Revolutionary Kant offers a new appreciation of Kant's classic, arguing that Kant's reform of philosophy was far more radical than has been...
In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world. In the period since 1945 growing concern has been shown over the international monetary problems which LDCs face, and since 1971 LDCs have been significant participants in the reform of the international monetary system. After tracing the evolution of the relationship between LDCs and the International Monetary Fund, the book goes on to examine, with full reference to the available empirical evidence, the major causes and consequences of LDCs'...
In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world. In the ...
A non-mathematical introduction to the macroeconomic analysis of both the open economy and the world economy. The text assumes a basic understanding of macroeconomics and is of interest to policy-makers and second year undergraduates.
A non-mathematical introduction to the macroeconomic analysis of both the open economy and the world economy. The text assumes a basic understanding o...
As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measures. Its approach to policy remains highly controversial, however. While the Fund claims it has adapted, critics allege its policies are harshly doctrinaire, imposing hardships on already poverty-stricken people. For the critics, the half century of its existence is fifty years too long' and radical change is essential. This book examines the arguments, tracing the extent of Fund adaption,...
As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countr...
First published in 1962. Kant s philosophical works, and especially the "Critique of Pure Reason," have had some influence on recent British philosophy. But the complexities of Kant s arguments, and the unfamiliarity of his vocabulary, inhibit understanding of his point of view. In "Kant s Theory of Knowledge "an attempt is made to relate Kant s arguments in the "Critique of Pure Reason "to contemporary issues by expressing them in a more modern idiom.
The selection of issues discussed is intended to present a continuous argument, of an epistemological kind, which runs centrally through...
First published in 1962. Kant s philosophical works, and especially the "Critique of Pure Reason," have had some influence on recent British philos...
This book focuses on the international financial problems of developing countries and the ways in which international financial policy might be used to alleviate them. A strong theme that emerges is that developing countries cannot be treated as a homogenous group from the viewpoint of their international financial problems. At the very least, a distinction needs to be drawn between the newly industrialising countries of Latin America and South-east Asia and the low income countries of Africa and Asia.
This book focuses on the international financial problems of developing countries and the ways in which international financial policy might be used t...
