Finance & Development articles from December 1991

Finance & Development archives from December 1991

Good news out of Africa. (Africa: The Economic Challenge)
December 1, 1991... These excerpts have been taken from an address by Mr. Camdessus on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Bank of Uganda, at Kampala, in August 1991. Since mid-1990. . . . no fewer than 12 African countries have entered into new...

Searching for household food security in Africa. (Africa: The Economic Challenge)
December 1, 1991... This article is based on a paper presented at a conference on food security and trade in May 1991. The work on food security in Malaui, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe is a collaborative effort on the part of the Governments of these...

Lessons from the export processing zone in Mauritius. (Africa: The Economic Challenge)
December 1, 1991... For a detailed analysis, see "Export Processing Zones for Growth and Development.- The Mauritian Example, " by Rolf Alter, IMF Working Paper, WP/90/122, available from the Indian Ocean Division of the IMF. For developing countries, the...

Development and cultural values in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Africa: The Economic Challenge)
December 1, 1991... For a fuller discussion of the economic psychology of African tribes, see Psychologie Economique Africaine by Jacques Binet, Payot, Paris, 1970. Perhaps one of the single biggest hindrances to economic development in SubSaharan Africa is...

Socioeconomic implications of AIDS in developing countries. (includes related article)
December 1, 1991... In the mid-1970s, the scientific community first became aware of an illness that was striking predominantly adults in various parts of the world. Those affected by the disease would gradually waste away and not respond well if treated for...

Safe motherhood - from advocacy to action.
December 1, 1991... Women's health is a critical factor in development. Some early progress, but the major challenge stiff lies ahead For a fuller discussion, see The Safe Motherhood Initiative, by Barbara Herz and Anthony R. Measham, World Bank Discussion...

What determines military expenditures? (includes related article)
December 1, 1991... For details of this study, see "Military Expenditure: Econometric Testing of Economic and Political Influences - by the author, available as IMF Working Paper WP/91/53. In recent years, some countries have spent as much as one fourth of...

Augmenting the IMF's resources. (International Monetary Fund)
December 1, 1991... As of October 31, 1991, 89 members, having 61.12 percent of total quotas on May 30, 7990, had consented to t quota increase, and 50 member.9, hating 44.06 percent of the total voting Power, had accepted the Proposed Third Amendment of the...

Interest rates and government debt: some linkages and consequences.
December 1, 1991... For a detailed version, see Interest Rates and Government Debt.- Are the Linkages Global Rather than National"' by Vito Tanzi and Mark Lutz, IMF Working Paper (WP/91/16), available from the authors. In a much-cited address in August 1984...

Lessons in economic policymaking. (Costa Rica's economic stabilization and reform)(Guest Article)
December 1, 1991... Most of the ideas in this article are discussed in detail in the author's "Eonomic Poky Making: Lessons from Costa Rica, Published as Occasional Paper No. 21 by the international Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), San Francisco, CA, USA, 1991....

Middle East oil exporters and world savings. (Guest Article)
December 1, 1991... Many economic observers are looking to the 1990s with a measure of apprehension stemming from perceptions that the world economy is in danger of being starved of capital. While a full analysis of this proposition is well outside the scope of...

Migration in LDCs: risk, remittances, and the family. (least developed countries)
December 1, 1991... This article is based on the author's recent book, The Migration of Labor, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA, USA, 1991, and on earlier research results, obtained by the author and his cob leagues, pertaining to Botswana, India, and the...

What determines workers' remittances?
December 1, 1991... One of the striking and immediate aftershocks of the recent Middle East war was the sudden stoppage of flows of workers' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait. The effects of this were disastrous on the economies of many countries in the region (and...

Informatics and the developing world. (includes related articles)
December 1, 1991... Rapid and far-reaching changes in microelectronics-based information technology are helping transform the global economic landscape, shifting the competitive advantage of countries, linking distant enterprises, globalizing financial services,...