Finance & Development articles from September 1990

Finance & Development archives from September 1990

Combating poverty: experience and prospects. (includes related article on poverty in 2000)
September 1, 1990... Combating Poverty: Experience and Prospects Over a billion people--a third of the population of the developing world--are living on less than $370 per annum. While conditions may improve substantially in East and South Asia over the next...

Policies for reducing poverty. (includes profiles of families in poverty)
September 1, 1990... Policies for Reducing Poverty Recognizing the immense waste of human resources within their economies due to poverty, some developing country governments have begun to change their approaches toward development to include the poor as clearly...

Aiming for 'high quality growth.'
September 1, 1990... Aiming for "High Quality Growth" Our prime objective is growth. In my view, there is no longer any ambiguity about this. It is toward growth that our programs and their conditionality are aimed. It is with a view toward growth that we...

Poverty concerns in fund-supported programs. (International Monetary Fund programs)
September 1, 1990... Poverty Concerns in Fund-Supported Programs It has become increasingly clear since the 1980s that growth and orderly adjustment are essential to any effort to reduce the incidence of poverty. Because of this, the Fund has been paying greater...

Adjustment and the poor. (World Bank lending for structural reforms)
September 1, 1990... Adjustment and the Poor Since the beginning of the 1980s, economic difficulties have led many developing countries to implement adjustment programs to correct policy distortions and structural imbalances. In the early years, little...

Tackling the social dimensions of adjustment in Africa. (African Development Bank) (includes related article on social action in Cameroon)
September 1, 1990... Tackling the Social Dimensions of Adjustment in Africa Behind the economic aggregates revealing mounting debt and faltering growth and exports lies the day-to-day reality of life in Africa: crumbling roads, growing unemployment, clinics...

Mexico's experience with adjustment. (includes related article on the process of structural reform)
September 1, 1990... Mexico's Experience with Adjustment After the onset of the debt crisis in 1982, Mexico launched a major policy effort aimed at correcting its macroeconomic and structural imbalances. Progress, however, was uneven, as the slow pace of...

Mexico's commercial bank financing package. (includes related article on International Monetary Fund and bank support for debt reduction)
September 1, 1990... Mexico's Commercial Bank Financing Package After a year of intensive negotiations, Mexico reached an agreement with its international commercial bank creditors on the most complex financing package to date. The agreement, signed on February...

Whither Comecon? (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
September 1, 1990... Whither Comecon? As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe struggle with market-oriented reform of their economies, one of the major unresolved issues is the shape--and indeed, future--of Comecon, formally known as the...

Heading for currency convertibility. (Eastern European economic conditions)
September 1, 1990... Heading for Currency Convertibility With the rapidly unfolding developments in Eastern Europe, there have been resurgent calls for moves toward currency convertibility--essentially, the unrestricted use of a country's currency for...

International currencies: the rise of the deutsche mark.
September 1, 1990... International Currencies: The Rise of the Deutsche Mark How does a national currency acquire the status of an international or key currency? This question is being asked anew as the deutsche mark takes on increasing importance on the global...

Adjustment in major oil exporting countries.
September 1, 1990... Adjustment in Major Oil Exporting Countries The sharp oil price increases in the 1970s appeared to free the major oil exporting countries (MOECs) from the familiar development dilemma posed by the need to choose between immediate consumption...

Oil and a changing OPEC. (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
September 1, 1990... Oiland a Changing OPEC Back in mid-1986, there was widespread jubilation in major oil consuming countries over the price collapse. The end of the Iran-Iraq war was predicted to turn the 1986 oil glut into a flood, with the oil price seen...

Prospects for the automotive industry in LDCs. (less developed countries)
September 1, 1990... Prospects for the Automotive Industry in LDCs Spurred by rising demand for automobiles and other vehicles, particularly in the developing world, the global automotive industry has grown rapidly in recent years. It represents a significant...