No. 30-16, August 2001
Index
- IMF approves drawing under Stand-By Arrangement for Turkey, commends ambitious economic program IMF approves $1.5 billion for Turkey
- Speakers argue that ownership, not the number of conditions, is key to success of an IMF program IMF conditionality review stresses ownership
- Fischer discusses goals of Turkish program, outlines challenges
- Accelerated disbursement for Argentina
- IMF management to recommend $15 billion Stand-By for Brazil
- Openness, market-friendly institutions, and flexibility are important ingredients for growth
- Effects of current turmoil in emerging markets may be less widespread than in previous crises
- UNDP report focuses on role of technology in advancing development and reducing poverty
- Diffusion of technology should be part of national poverty reduction strategies
- Trinidad and Tobago faces the challenges of managing an energy-based economy