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1 Finance, Technology and Multinationals from the Periphery Edmund Amann and Werner Baer, World Economics, March 2010 This article analyses the emergence of Latin American multinational corporations (MNCs), with a particular emphasis on the roles of finance and techno.. More   2 Christopher Adam on James M. Broughton and Domenico Lombardi (eds) Finance, Development, and the IMF. World Economics, March 2011 More   3 Connecting the African Continent Peter Dearden, Minouche Shafik and Leonard Tedd, World Economics, June 2011 This paper provides an overview of the contribution of economic infrastructure to growth and human development in Africa. Challenges for infrastructur.. More   4 The Eurozone: What Now? Graham Bird, World Economics, September 2010 The financial and economic crisis in Greece in 2009/2010 has reawakened interest in the future of the euro and the eurozone. After briefly explaining .. More   5 The Rebirth of the Corporate Bond Market Bill Robinson, John Raven & Christopher Chua, World Economics, June 2001 There has been a major switch from equity to debt finance in recent years, associated with a fall in the long-term rate of interest. The paper explor.. More   6 Sukuk Defaults in the Kingdom: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia’s Opaque Bankruptcy Process. Brian Sturgess, World Economics, March 2013 A default on a US$650 million sukuk debt issue, Golden Belt 1, has focused attention on the wider question of the opaque nature of the legal process i.. More   7 The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis Bob McKee, World Economics, December 2010 After the excessive expansion of new forms of private sector credit over two decades of disinflation, a huge pyramid of global liquidity was accumulat.. More   8 Making Fiscal Space Happen! Peter S. Heller, Menachem Katz, Xavier Debrun, Theo Thomas, Taline Koranchelian & Isabell Adenauer, World Economics, September 2006 Debt relief and the scaling up of aid to low-income countries should allow for increased fiscal space for expenditure programs to spur long-term growt.. More   9 The Change in Corporate Behaviour Andrew Smithers, World Economics, October 2012 Deficit finance is needed to offset ex-ante savings’ surpluses and provides an adequate solution, provided that the surpluses are cyclical. Today addi.. More   10 Are poor Germans supporting rich Spaniards? Brian Sturgess, World Economics, April 2013 The European Central Bank has published a survey of household wealth across the euro area which provides further evidence of the enormous economic imb.. More   11 Poor Chinese Consumption Data Creates Savings Myth Jun Zhang & Zhu Tian, World Economics, April 2013 Chinese official statistics underestimate consumption expenditure on housing, they omit consumption paid for as benefits by the corporate sector and t.. More   12 The “Good Global Citizen” remit of the IMF: reforming international economic and financial cooperation Biagio Bossone and Roberta Marra, World Economics, March 2013 In the highly globalized world economy of our times, where markets are tightly integrated, setting domestic economic policy with a view simply to keep.. More   13 Grand Bahama: A Role Model For Privately Funded Infrastructure Development? Keith Boyfield, World Economics, March 2013 The recent international conference in Freeport, Grand Bahama was held to discuss the implications for international trade and Caribbean economies ste.. More   14 Global Value Chains and Trade in Value-Added: New Insights, Better Policies Ken Ash, World Economics, March 2013 This paper stresses the importance of the growth in global value chains (GVCs) across countries using data from the new Trade in Value-Added (TiVA) da.. More   15 Bond yield comparisons are seriously distorted by using consumer price index deflators. Brian Sturgess, World Economics, February 2013 This paper argues that calculations of real government bond yields should use GDP deflators rather than consumer price inflation indexes. The GDP defl.. More   16 Sukuk Defaults: Islamic Debt Investors Need Better Data Rodney Wilson, World Economics, February 2013 Sukuk are often described as Islamic bonds, but in practice there are many types of sukuk, some indeed being a Shari’ah compliant substitute for bonds.. More   17 Revolutionary Trade Database Launched by OECD and WTO Brian Sturgess and Toni Oki, World Economics, January 2013 The OECD and the WTO have released an extremely important set of new international trade data which in the long-run may revolutionise the way current .. More   18 The Collapse of Consensus: the Contemporary Confusion over Macroeconomic Policy Graham Bird, World Economics, December 2012 Consensus in macroeconomics helps policy makers formulate a coherent and logically consistent group of policies. At different times in the post war er.. More   19 World Price Index World Economics, World Economics, November 2012 The World Price Index (WPI) is an attempt at producing a timely usable index for frequent international economic comparisons. It is intended for compa.. More   20 Reflections on the Crisis in Greece Haris Vittas, World Economics, September 2012 After a brief review of the origins of the crisis and the efforts that have been made to cope with it, the paper assesses the factors that explain the.. More