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The meaning of Clinical Trials for humans has recently changed significantly, “evolved”, so to speak. In today’s environment, where ethical validity is much more strictly controlled, this meaning is……続きを見る

Money and Schools explains and demonstrates the relationship between money and equality of educational opportunity in a way that is clear, precise, and engaging. Grounded in research and best practi……続きを見る

The sale is not complete until the money is in the bank...but you must collect it first. Collections are uncomfortable for everyone involved on both ends of the unfinished transaction - the flustere……続きを見る

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting……続きを見る

Like so many of us, Margret Kopala lost a significant portion of her life savings in the stock market crash of 2008. Unlike us, however, she went on a long and intense financial odyssey to find out ……続きを見る

This volume has been prepared in the framework of Project 1: "Educating Man for the 21st Century" of Plan Europe 2000, sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation. While most of the studies launch……続きを見る

An increasing body of literature concerns the economics of those highly appreciated qualities of life that are not easily provided by market exchange. Today these problems are visible as never befor……続きを見る

Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one th……続きを見る

In a world of increasing capital mobility and broadening and more diversified trade, many (but not all) developing and transition economies are likely to find it desirable to move from relatively fi……続きを見る

Japan’s revitalization plan, dubbed the “three arrows of Abenomics,” devises a three-pronged strategyーcombining fiscal, monetary, and structural policiesーto overcome that country's apparent inabil……続きを見る

Et s'il suffisait... que les Etats imposent la T.V.A. aux opérateurs financiers et qu'ils redistribuent cette manne aux citoyens, pour que notre planète se porte durablement mieux ? Enfin un livre q……続きを見る

Why do fewer teenagers in England from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university than young people from better-off families? Once at university, how well do poorer students fare compared with other……続きを見る

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-……続きを見る

Aaron Wildavsky was one of the most innovative and prolific scholars in the field of budgeting in our time. His work spanned a period of more than forty years, and its perspectives encompassed not o……続きを見る

"En las décadas recientes, el papel del Estado frente a la economía se ha transformado: ha dejado de ser el proveedor de bienes y servicios para la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas de la pobl……続きを見る

Arab financial assistance to developing - particularly Arab - countries rose sharply between 1973 and 1980 but fell gradually through the 1980s, owing mainly to weakening oil prices. As a percent of……続きを見る

Are the three Baltic countries, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, ready for accession to the European Union? Have their economies overcome the problems of transition? The answers to these questions an……続きを見る

The Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) is the cenerpiece of the International Monetary Fund's strategy to provide assistance on concessional terms to low-income member countries that are……続きを見る

This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy……続きを見る

This study takes stock of progress made so far in the financial sectors of sub-saharan African countries. It recommends further reforms and specific measures in the areas of supervision, development……続きを見る

This paper deals with trade policy issues of particular interest to the Fund. It is motivated both by the revival of protectionist attitudes in the industrial countries and the prevalence of liberal……続きを見る