Globalization and the Nation State or Money and Monetary Regimes

Globalization and the Nation State: The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

Author: Gustav Ranis

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies area positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage. This book brings together an international team of contributors and centres upon three broad themes:

· The Ideology of the IMF and World Bank

· Poverty Reduction

· Conditionality

Table of Contents:

1	Who's in charge? : ownership and conditionality in IMF-supported programs	19
2	Policy conditionality	36
3	Conditionality and ownership in IMF lending : a political economy approach	51
4	Empirical implications of endogenous IMF conditionality	82
5	The high politics of IMF lending	111
6	Money talks : supplementary financiers and IMF conditionality	143
7	The World Bank and the reconstruction of the 'social safety net' in Russia and eastern Europe	181
8	When the World Bank says yes : determinants of structural adjustment lending	204
9	The demand for IMF assistance : what factors influence the decision to turn to the fund?	231
10	The survival of political leaders and IMF programs	263
11	Do PRSPs empower poor countries and disempower the World Bank, or is it the other way round?	290
12	Macroeconomic adjustment in IMF-supported programs : projections and reality	325
13	The IMF and capital account crises : the case for a separate lender of last resort and conditionality functions	351
14	Should the IMF discontinue its long-term lending role in developing countries?	378
15	IFIs and IPGs : operational implications for the World Bank	404
16	Ownership, Dutch disease, and the World Bank	419
17	Why its matters who runs the IMF and the World Bank	429
18	Do as I say not as I do : a critique of G-7 proposals on "reforming" the MDBs	452

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Money and Monetary Regimes: Struggle for Monetary Supremacy

Author: George Macesich

Combining a rich mixture of technical economics, political repercussions, and even the psychology of symbols and beliefs, monetary problems are both fascinating and perplexing. Given the unprecedented fiat monetary regime currently emerging, past and present struggles for monetary supremacy provide valuable lessons. This book provides insight into monetary and political problems in the United States and elsewhere.