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Finance & Development, June 2007.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Department.
- Series:
- Finance & Development; Finance & Development ; No. 0044/002
- Finance & Development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and banking.
- Finance.
- Investments, Foreign.
- Youth--Social conditions--21st century.
- Local Subjects:
- Banks and banking.
- Finance.
- Investments, Foreign.
- Youth--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (60 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The June 2007 issue of F&D spotlights gender equality. The lead article discusses progress toward fulfilling the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on redressing gender discrimination and empowering women and related MDGs. The section also looks at how budgeting with gender issues in mind can help countries promote gender equality and what needs to be done to get girls from 'excluded' social groups into school. Other articles focus on Asia 10 years after the financial crisis, the implications of China's and India's growing ties with Africa, and making remittances work for Africa. 'Country Focus' looks at the challenges facing Bulgaria now that it has joined the European Union, 'Picture This' highlights the globalization of labor, and 'Back to Basics' gives a primer on microfinance. Two other pieces discuss the efficiency of public spending in Latin America and how countries can use the public sector balance sheet approach to diagnose vulnerabilities that are not immediately visible in the budget.
- Contents:
- Cover; FEATURES; DEPARTMENTS; Letters; In Brief; THE ECONOMIC POWER OF WOMEN; Smart Economics; More needs to be done to promote the economic power of women; Budgeting with Women in Mind; Why using the budget to empower women makes good economic sense; Getting All Girls into School; New ways are needed to educate "excluded" girls in developing countries; Picture This; Globalization of Labor; ALSO IN THIS ISSUE; Asia Ten Years After; A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list; Point of View: Asia's Decade of Transformation
- Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor, Bank Negara MalaysiaPoint of View: Korea: In Search of a New Compact; Un-Chan Chung, Professor, Seoul National University; Underutilized Capital; If the investment bias toward inefficient state enterprises ended, China could increase living standards substantially without sacrificing growth; Getting Together; The China-Africa partnership for aid and trade; Connecting Africa and Asia; Improved Asian market access can boost Africa's exports, but Africa needs domestic reforms to fully capture the economic benefits; Making Remittances Work for Africa
- If handled well, migrant transfers can reduce poverty and connect small savers to the formal financial sectorBack to Basics; Microfinance: Banking for the Poor; A Government's Net Worth; A new tool in surveillance, the public sector balance sheet, can help diagnose vulnerabilities that are not immediately visible in the budget; Getting Spending Right; Latin America needs to reform public spending to make it more efficient, better help the poor, and address infrastructure bottlenecks; Book Reviews; Country Focus: Bulgaria
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612845154
- 9781462375448
- 1462375448
- 9781455270804
- 1455270806
- 9781282845152
- 1282845152
- 9781455271788
- 1455271780
- 9781451953824
- 1451953828
- OCLC:
- 870245367
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