Books
1988
December 15, 1988
Economic Policy Coordination: Proceedings of an International Seminar held in Hamburg
Description: This volume, which presents the proceedings of a seminar moderated by Wilfred Guth in Hamburg, Germany, dicusses the extent of international policy coordination, its effectiveness, and how it can be expected to work in the future.
Notes: The seminar was organized by the Fund in co-sponsorship with the HWWA-Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung-Hamburg in commemoration of the distinguished economist, Armin Gutowski.
September 15, 1988
Beyond Adjustment: The Asian Experience
Description: This book, edited by Paul Streeten, examines the ends and means of adjustment, aspects of trade policy, and lessons from the experience of South and East Asia, as well as comparing the debt situations of Asian and Latin American countries.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations and the International Monetary Fund.
June 15, 1988
Value Added Tax: International Practice and Problems
Description: This book, by Alan A. Tait, is an examination of VAT. It looks at problems and theoretical options and potential impacts, as well as detailing the practical aspects of implementing new tax structures. The author advances arguments for and against alternative policies and illustrates his study with international examples from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. He suggests that countries can learn from each other's experiencees with VAT.
Notes: Reprinted
March 15, 1988
External debt: Definition, Statistical Coverage and Methodology
Description: This book is intended to provide the user of debt statistics with a comparative description fo the statistics collected by the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank. It discusses how these statistics are gathered, why they take the form they do, and how they relate to each other.
Notes: A report by an International Working Group on External Debt Statistics of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bank for International Settlements, and Organiszation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
1987
September 15, 1987
Adjustment, 1945 to 1986: The IMF Experience
Description: Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balance of payments adjustment. Separate treatment is given to industrial and developing countries, as their balance of payments problems have differed. As examples, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Mexico are discussed.
September 15, 1987
Report on the World Current Account Discrepancy
Description: The IMF, in cooperation with other concerned organizations, set up a working party to investigate and improve the statistical procedures being used, and to recommend compilation procedures that would make nations' balance of payments statistics more consistent with one another. In addition to detailed explanations of its findings and recommendations, the Report contains extensive statistical appendices and 109 tables.
September 15, 1987
Adjustment Policies and Development Strategies in the Arab World: Papers Presented at a Seminar held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 16-18, 1987
Description: This Selected Issues paper discusses the assessment of economic activity in Togo in absence of quarterly GDP series. Togo collects about 40 macroeconomic indicators monthly that span a wide range of sectors of the economy. The selection of the variables for the economic activity index is conducted by finding the combination of variables. The indicators are aggregated into an index using a methodology used by the Conference Board. Then an economic activity index is constructed that effectively replicates the historical growth rates of real GDP in Togo. The selected index minimizes the deviations between the growth rates of the indicator and actual real GDP growth over 2002–13.
September 15, 1987
Growth-Oriented Adjustment Programs: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Washington, D.C., February 25-27, 1987
Description: This volume presents the proceedings of a symposium that was orgainzed jointly by the IMF and the World Bank and held in Washington, D.C. The symposium was organized by Vittorio Corbo, Morris Goldstein, and Mohsin Khan. The papers review the design of, and the economic rationale behind, adjustment programs and examine the best means of helping developing countries achieve balance of payments stability with sustainable economic growth.
June 15, 1987
Supply-Side Tax Policy: Its Relevance to Developing Countries
Description: Written by Ved P. Gandhi, Liam P. Ebrill, George A. Mackenzie, Luis Mañas-Antón, Jitendra R. Modi, Somchai Richupan, Fernando Sanchez-Ugarte, and Parthasarathi Shome, this book contains 12 articles. It examines the relevance to developing countries of the tax policy recommendations of supply-side economists and attempts to delineate policy guidelines to ensure that fiscal management enhances rather than inhibits growth and efficiency in the wider economy.
March 15, 1987
Balance of Payments Adjustment, 1945 to 1986: The IMF Experience
Description: Written by Margaret Garritsen de Vries, former Historian of the IMF, the book describes the policies and activities the IMF has pursued in helping members achieve balane of payments adjustment. Separate treatment is given to industrial and developing countries, since their balance of payments problems have differed. As examples, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Mexico as discussed.
Notes: Reprinted January 1988.