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This is the third in a group of three papers dealing with various aspects of Fund-supported adjustment programs.

Countries with large oil resources can benefit substantially from them. However, despite their huge natural resources, many oil producers have had disappointing growth, widespread poverty, and continuing vulnerability to oil price and other external shocks. Fiscal policy can play a central role indetermining...

This book provides a comprehensive review of recent economic developments in South Africa and the structural and policy challenges facing the authorities. Individual papers examine a range of topics such as unemployment and the labor market, recent trends in the private saving rate, the role of foreign...

What are fiscal policy rules? What are the principal benefits and drawbacks associated with various fiscal rules, particularly compared with alternative approaches to fiscal adjustment? Can fiscal rules contribute to long-run sustainability and welfare without sacrificing short-run stabilization? If...

Written by Anne Romanis Braun, a former staff member of the IMF's Research Department, this volume deals with the nature of wage determination and the problem of securing an economically appropriate development of money incomes in an open economy over the medium term.

Australia's recent economic performance has been impressive. It has experienced steady growth since the early 1990s and inflation has averaged just 2 percent over the same period. This strong showing marks a departure from the performance of the postwar years, when falling productivity and rising inflation...

The striking turnaround in the Netherlands' economic performance over the past decade and a half has attracted widespread attention. Emerging from deep recession and high unemployment in the early 1980s, the economy shifted to a pace of growth more rapid than that in neighboring economies, and posted...

This is the second of a group of papers dealing with various aspects of Fund-supported adjustment Programs.

Todos los mecanismos del Sistema Fiscal en España con las últimas novedades incorporadas. Estos volúmenes tratan los contenidos teóricos, complementándolos con cuadros, esquemas y actividades para ayudar al lector a una mejor comprensión de la normativa fiscal. Así mismo, proponen una gran variedad de actividades que permitirán ejercitar la aplicación de los contenidos adquiridos.

This paper reviews recent experience of African countries in the design and implementation of adjustment programs supported by use of Fund resources.

IMF-supported adjustment programs aim to restore economic growth, while bringing about a sustainable balance of payments position. Achievement of these goals requires coordinated use of a variety of policy meansures, including monetary and fiscal, exchange rate, external debt management, and structural...

In recent years, an increasing number of developing countries have adopted market-determined floating exchange rates. This development has represented a significant step forward in the evolution toward exchange rate flexibility that has taken place in the developing country group since the adoption of generalized floating by industrial countries in 1973.

Why do so many individual investors throw together slapdash portfolios of risky and under-researched ETFs that are utterly out of alignment with their preferred investing style? The only reason - until now - is that there were no reliable, step-by-step instructions for designing an ideal investment mix of ETFs.