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Capital Rules
"The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s—trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies—had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of f...
Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations
A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.
Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions
This Handbook addresses the increasingly contested issue of profound political importance: Europe's presence in multilateral institutions. It assesses both the evolving role of Europe in international institutions, and the transformations in international institutions themselves.
Summary Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Meetings 2008
The speeches made by officials attending the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings are published in this volume, along with the press communiqués issued by the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee at the conclusion of the meetings.
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1981
This paper reviews key findings of the IMF’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1981. The report highlights that the world economic situation during 1980 and the first half of 1981 was difficult and disappointing in important respects. Nevertheless, signs of progress in dealing with some of the severe economic problems of recent years have begun to emerge. Both the encouraging aspects of the situation and the difficulties confronting national authorities, as well as the policies being utilized to meet those difficulties, are outlined in this report.
Official Congressional Directory
Contains biographies of Senators, members of Congress, and the Judiciary. Also includes committee assignments, maps of Congressional districts, a directory of officials of executive agencies, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, web addresses, and other information.
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2008
The Annual Report 2008 to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF’s activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2007, through April 30, 2008). There are five chapters: (1) Overview: Refocusing the IMF; (2) Developments in the Global Economy and Financial Markets; (3) Fostering Macroeconomic and Financial Stability and Growth Through Surveillance; (4) Program Support and Capacity Building; and (5) Governance, Organization, and Finances. The full financial statements for the year, other appendixes, and materials supplementing the text are provided on a CD-ROM.
International Financial Institutions
What are the functions of the international financial institutions?How do they operate, and how do they relate to eachother?How have they evolved in order to respond to international economic developments?This introductory text surveys the financial and monetary functions of international financial institutions providing clear insights into how the institutions function, and how they influence, and are influenced by practical economic policy-making. The text has been kept simple, to allow readers to form a clear understanding of the nature of international financial institutions without delving into complicated statutory or regulatory detail. Boxed case studies and anecdotes from insiders are used throughout the text to ensure that readers have a real sense of how institutions actually work in practice and suggestions for further reading are given at the end of each chapter .Undergraduate students of international business, international finance, international political-economy and international relations will welcome this concise, readable text.Dr. Age F P Bakker is Deputy Director of the Dutch Central BankNB: Kevin, can the contents be listed in the back cover, down one side plea
