DRESSING GLOBAL IMBALANCES: A DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED POLICY AGENDA

This paper examines how macroeconomic policies can be managed to accommodate a large inflow of foreign aid to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic and still maintain macroeconomic stability. Because of the daunting scale of this epidemic, funds need to be disbursed urgently in order to contain its...

This working paper examines the validity of the claim that ?scaling up? ODA in developing countries will cause ?Dutch Disease? effects that slow growth and human development. The most common concerns are increased inflation and exchange-rate appreciation. Consistent with a recent IMF...

The U.S. economy is monopolizing global net savings, i.e., about two-thirds of the total. Other rich countries, such as Japan and Germany, oil exporters, such as Saudi Arabia, middleincome countries, such as China, and even some low-income countries, such as India and Indonesia, export capital...

This paper examines the trend in post-Apartheid earnings inequality in South Africa. By combining data sets, the paper is able to analyze the trend for the whole period 1995-2004. Earnings inequality rose sharply during 1995-1999 and then declined marginally, but remained high, during 2000-2004....

The authors attempt to explore the efforts, since the 1970s, of Brazil and Mexico to reform their models of development. They focus on one aspect of this strategic reform, the promotion of the export of manufactures