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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815610703321

Titolo

Finance & Development, June 2007

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2007

ISBN

1-4623-7544-8

1-4552-7080-6

1-282-84515-2

9786612845154

1-4552-7178-0

1-4519-5382-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Collana

Finance & Development

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Banks and banking

Finance

Investments, Foreign

Youth -- Social conditions -- 21st century

Exports and Imports

Macroeconomics

Women''s Studies'

Gender Studies

Accounting

Economics of Gender

Non-labor Discrimination

Education: General

Public Administration

Public Sector Accounting and Audits

Remittances

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Trade: General

International economics

Education

Gender studies

women & girls

Public finance & taxation

Financial reporting, financial statements



Women

Financial statements

Exports

Gender

Public financial management (PFM)

Balance of payments

International trade

Finance, Public

International finance

Sex role

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.