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Finance & Development, June 2002
International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2002
This paper highlights that despite unprecedented gains in living standards in some countries over the past few decades, poverty continues as a harsh reality in too much of the developing world. The causes lie in part with poor country governments that have not followed through on the policies...
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Finance & Development, June 2005
International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2005
The paper highlights that over the past century, access to education has increased enormously, illiteracy has fallen dramatically, and a higher proportion of people are completing primary, secondary, or tertiary education than ever before. But huge problems remain. About 115 million children of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398256
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Finance & Development, June 2011
International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2011
'Wising Up to the Costs of Aging' looks at how falling fertility and rising life expectancy have combined to threaten the ability of many countries to provide a decent standard of living for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young. In our lead article, Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason...
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Finance & Development, June 2010
International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2010
Asia Leading the Way explores how the region is moving into a leadership role in the world economy. The issue looks at … Asia's biggest economy, China, which has relied heavily on exports to grow, and its need to increase domestic demand and to … services sector. Min Zhu, the new Special Advisor to the IMF's Managing Director, talks about Asia in the global economy, the …
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