Finance & Development, March 2012

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819363003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-4639-9542-3; 1-4639-7705-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (60 p.)
• Collana: Finance & Development
• Disciplina: 346.73082
• Soggetti: Youth - Political activity; Youth - Social conditions - 21st century; Achievement motivation in youth; Finance: General; Labor; Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Education: General; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems; Finance; Labour; income economics; Education; Monetary economics; Gender studies; women & girls; Credit rating agencies; Women; Unemployment; Financial markets; Gender; Reserve currencies; Money; Credit ratings; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Youth demanding change."; Two columns to the page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Features; YOUTH FINDING A VOICE; Youth in the Balance: Frustrated and angry, the world's young people are demanding change; Making the Grade: Revamping what and how young people learn is the best way to help them and their home countries succeed; Scarred Generation: In advanced economies, the crisis sparked a huge increase in unemployment among younger workers that will take a long time to abate; Straight Talk Stolen Dreams: Our ability to set the world economy straight will decide the fate of today's young people; Voices of Youth: Around the world, young people speak out; ALSO IN THIS ISSUEWill the Renminbi Rule?: The Chinese currency is on track to become more important globally, but is unlikely to challenge the dollar anytime soon; Protecting the Whole: Keeping individual financial institutions sound is not enough. A broader macroprudential approach is needed to safeguard the financial system; Ratings Game: Private credit rating agencies have been thrust into providing a public function because regulators have not come up with an alternative; Empowering Women Is Smart Economics: Closing gender gaps benefits countries as a whole, not just women and girls; Picture This: Growing Out of Poverty: Poverty in Latin America is at its lowest level in 20 years
• Sommario/riassunto: Young people, hardest hit by the global economic downturn, are speaking out and demanding change. F&D looks at the need to urgently address the challenges facing youth and create opportunities for them. Harvard professor David Bloom lays out the scope of the problem and emphasizes the importance of listening to young people in "Youth in the Balance." "Making the Grade" looks at how to teach today's young people what they need to get jobs. IMF Deputy Managing Director, Nemat Shafik shares her take on the social and economic consequences of youth unemployment in our "Straight Talk" column. "Scarred Generation" looks at the effects the global economic crisis had on young workers in advanced economies, and we hear directly from young people across the globe in "Voices of Youth." Renminbi's rise, financial system regulation, and boosting GDP by empowering women. Also in the magazine, we examine the rise of the Chinese currency, look at the role of the credit rating agencies, discuss how to boost the empowerment of women, and present our primer on macroprudential regulation, seen as increasingly important to financial stability. People in economics - C. Fred Bergsten, American Globalist. Back to basics - The multi-dimensional role of banks in our financial systems.