{"id":6880,"date":"2009-06-12T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2009-06-12T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T16:46:10","slug":"imf-releases-june-09-finance-development-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=6880","title":{"rendered":"IMF Releases June 09 Finance &amp; Development Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/fandd\/2009\/06\/index.htm\">Finance &#038; Development, June 2009<\/a>, with the following articles (what follows is largely a copy-paste from their press release &#8230; sorry, not much time today!):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Crisis Shakes Europe: Stark Choices Ahead<\/b>: looks at the harsh toll of the crisis on both Europe&#8217;s advanced and emerging economies because of the global nature of the shocks that have hit both the financial sector and the real economy, and because of Europe&#8217;s strong regional and global trade links. Marek Belka, Director of the IMF&#8217;s European Department, writes in our lead article that beyond the immediate need for crisis management, Europe<br \/>\nmust revisit the frameworks on which the European Union is based because many have been revealed to be flawed or missing.<\/p>\n<li><b>Stress Test for the Euro<\/b> and <b>The Euro&#8217;s Finest Hour<\/b>: In many respects, one key European institution has proved its mettle-the euro. Both Charles Wyplosz and Barry Eichengreen discuss the future of the common currency.\n<li><b>The Perfect Storm<\/b>: IMF<br \/>\neconomists rank the current recession as the most severe in the postwar period<\/p>\n<li><b>Preparing for a Post-Crisis World<\/b>:  John Lipsky, the Fund&#8217;s First Deputy Managing Director, examines the IMF&#8217;s role in a postcrisis world;\n<li><b>Asset Price Booms: How Can They Best be Managed?<\/b>: Giovanni Dell&#8217;Ariccia assesses what we have learned about how to manage asset price booms to prevent the bust that has caused such havoc.\n<li><b>Interview<\/b>:  Oxford economist Paul Collier about how to help low-income countries during the current crisis,\n<li><b>Start This Engine<\/b>: Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, writes about how African policymakers can prepare to take<br \/>\nadvantage of a global economic recovery.<\/p>\n<li><b>Picture This<\/b>:  looks at what happens when aggressive monetary policy combats a crisis;\n<li><b>Back to Basics<\/b> gives a primer on fiscal policy\n<li><b>Data Spotlight<\/b> takes a look at the recent large swings in commodity prices.<\/ul>\n<p>As Assiduous Readers will know, the IMF is the Venerated Regulator du jour and all right-thinking people expect it to lead us to the promised land. Those Assiduous Readers who are not Capitalist-Deviationists are urged to keep a copy with them at all times, to assist them to smartly rebut the running dog lackeys of the pro-bonus clique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has released Finance &#038; Development, June 2009, with the following articles (what follows is largely a copy-paste from their press release &#8230; sorry, not much time today!): Crisis Shakes Europe: Stark &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-external-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}