A quarterly magazine of the IMF

December 2000, Volume 37, Number 4

Articles

Masood Ahmed and Hugh Bredenkamp, Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response, December

Eduardo Aninat, Chile in the 1990s: Embracing Development Opportunities, March

Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's Transformation, September

Tomás J.T. Baliño and Angel Ubide, The New World of Banking, June

Andrew Berg and Eduardo Borensztein, The Dollarization Debate, March

James M. Boughton, Michel Camdessus at the IMF: A Retrospective, March

Leonardo Cardemil, Juan Carlos Di Tata, and Florencia Frantischek, Central America: Adjustment and Reforms in the 1990s, March

Paul Cashin and Catherine Pattillo, The Duration of Terms of Trade Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa, June

Enzo Croce and Mohsin S. Khan, Monetary Regimes and Inflation Targeting, September

Uri Dadush, Dipak Dasgupta, and Dilip Ratha, The Role of Short-Term Debt in Recent Crises, December

Raj Desai and Itzhak Goldberg, Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma, June

Mohamed A. El-Erian, Where Are Emerging Markets Headed? June

Robert A. Feldman and C. Maxwell Watson, Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership, September

Stanley Fischer and Ratna Sahay, Economies in Transition: Taking Stock, September

Arminio Fraga, Monetary Policy During the Transition to a Floating Exchange Rate: Brazil's Recent Experience, March

Sanjeev Gupta, Brian Hammond, Richard Leete, and Eric Swanson, Progress Toward the International Development Goals, December

Emine Gürgen, Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects, September

José Angel Gurría, Mexico: Recent Developments, Structural Reforms, and Future Challenges, March

Sean Hagan, Promoting Orderly and Effective Insolvency Procedures, March

Oleh Havrylyshyn and John Odling-Smee, Political Economy of Stalled Reforms, September

Ernesto Hernández-Catá, Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Done? December

Paul Hilbers, Russell Krueger, and Marina Moretti, New Tools for Assessing Financial System Soundness, September

Christopher Jarvis, The Rise and Fall of Albania's Pyramid Schemes, March

Oussama Kanaan, Tanzania's Experience with Trade Liberalization, June

Cem Karacadag and Michael W. Taylor, Toward a New Global Banking Standard: The Basel Committee's Proposals, December

Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, and Pablo Zoido-Lobatón, Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action, June

Anne Y. Kester, Improving the Framework for Reporting on International Reserves, June

Mahmood Hasan Khan, Rural Poverty in Developing Countries, December

Robert Klitgaard, Subverting Corruption, June

János Kornai, Making the Transition to Private Ownership, September

Mary Locke, Funding the IMF: The Debate in the U.S. Congress, September

Claudio M. Loser and Martine Guerguil, The Long Road to Financial Stability, March

Prakash Loungani, Comrades or Competitors? Trade Links Between China and Other East Asian Economies, June

Nora Lustig and Omar Arias, Poverty Reduction, March

Nora Lustig and Nicholas Stern, Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security, December

Catherine L. Mann, Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? March

Kathryn McPhail, How Oil, Gas, and Mining Projects Can Contribute to Development, December

Deepa Narayan, Poverty Is Powerlessness and Voicelessness, December

Andrei Nesterenko, The Modernization Challenge Facing President Putin, September

Roger Nord, Central and Eastern Europe and the New Financial Architecture, September

Saleh M. Nsouli, Capacity Building in Africa: The Role of International Financial Institutions, December

Jeremy Pope and Frank Vogl, Making Anticorruption Agencies More Effective, June

Barry H. Potter and Jack Diamond, Building Treasury Systems, September

Pedro Pou, Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s, March

Robert Powell, Debt Relief for Poor Countries, December

Robert Rennhack, Banking Supervision, March

Einars Repse, Latvia: Focus on Country Development, September

Caroline M. Robb, How the Poor Can Have a Voice in Government Policy, December

Dani Rodrik, Growth Versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate, December

Hans Dieter Seibel, Agricultural Development Banks: Close Them or Reform Them? June

Torsten Sløk, Can Monetary Policy Be Effective During Transition? Lessons from Mongolia, September

Rüdiger Soltwedel, Dirk Dohse, and Christiane Krieger-Boden, European Labor Markets and EMU: Challenges Ahead, June

Janet Stotsky, Esther Suss, and Stephen Tokarick, Trade Liberalization in the Caribbean, June

Rachel van Elkan, Czech Republic: Recent Developments and Current Outlook, September

Willy H. Verheye, Food Production or Food Aid? An African Challenge, December

René Weber and Günther Taube, Estonia Moves Toward EU Accession, September

Book Reviews

Jacques Bendelac, L'économie palestinienne: De la dépendance à l'autonomie, December

Jagdish Bhagwati, A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy, June

Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham (editors), New Markets, New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World, December

Courtney N. Blackman, Central Banking in Theory and Practice: A Small State Perspective, December

Edward Chancellor, Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, March

Diane Coyle, The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy, March

Dana Frank, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, June

Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, March

Norman K. Humphreys, Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund, Second Edition, March

Henry Kaufman, On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir, September

Derek Leebaert (editor), The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, March

Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, December

Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, June

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia, September

Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, March