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Klaas Knot, Donogh McDonald, and Karen Bimal Chakraborty, The United Nations and the Articles Swiderski, Policy Challenges for the Euro Area, Third World: Shifting Paradigms, reviewed by Martha Ainsworth, Setting Government December Sanjeev Gupta, June Priorities in Preventing HIV/AIDS, March Patrick Lenain, Ten Years of Transition: A Roy Culpeper, Tita:is or Behemoths? The Tomas J.T. Balifio, Monetary Policy in Russia, Progress Report, September Multilateral Development Banks, Volume 5 December lan Lienert, Civil Service Reform in Africa reviewed by Robert Picciotto, June James M. Boughton, Harry Dexter White and Mixed Results After 10 Years, June Roy Culpeper, Albert Berry, and Frances the International Monetary Fund, September John Lipsky, Asia’s Crisis: A Market Perspective, Stewart, editors, Global Development Fifty Years Sharmini Coorey, Mauro Mecagni, and Erik June After Bretton Woods: Essays in Honour of Gerald Offerdal, Achieving Low Inflation in Transition K. Helleiner, reviewed by Vinod Thomas and Paul R. Masson, Miguel A. Savastano, and Sunil Economies: The Role of Relative Price Adjustment, Sarwar Lateef, December Sharma, Can Inflation Targeting Be a Framework March for Monetary Policy in Developing Countries? Marcello De Cecco, Lorenzo Pecchi, and Michael C. Deppler, The Implications of EMI March Gustavo Piga, editors, Managing Public Debt for IMF Surveillance, December Index-Linked Bonds in Theory and Practice, Donald J. Mathieson, Anthony Richards, and Barry Eichengreen and Michael Mussa, Capital Sunil Sharma, Financial Crises in Emerging reviewed by Graeme Wheeler, September Account Liberalization and the IMF, December Markets, December Kimberly Ann Elliott, editor, Corruption and the Charles Enoch and Anne-Marie Gulde, Are Global Economy, reviewed by Daniel Kaufmann, Paolo Mauro, Corruption: Causes, Consequences, Currency Boardsa Cure for All Monetary March and Agenda for Further Research, March Problems? December Richard H.R. Harper, Inside the IMF: An Ashoka Mody and Michael Walton, Building on Charles A. Enoch, Paul L. Hilbers, and Arto Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and East Asia’s Infrastructure Foundations, June Kovanen, Monetary Operations in the European Organizational Action, reviewed by Brian ¢ Economic and Monetary Union, June Saleh M. Nsouli and Mounir Rached, Capital Stuart, December Account Liberalization in the Southern Julian Exeter and Steven Fries, The Post lan G. Heggie and Piers Vickers, Commercial Mediterranean, December Communist Transition: Patterns and Prospects Management and Financing of Roads, reviewed September Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, What Lessons Does by Gabriel Roth, December the Mexican Crisis Hold for Recovery in Asia? Stanley Fischer, The Asian Crisis and the Devesh Kapur, John P. Lewis, and Richard June Changing Role of the IMF, June Webb, The World Bank: Its First Half Century Philip Gerson, Poverty and Economic Policy in MMaeracdh Over, Coping with the Impact of AIDS, reviewed by James M. Boughton, June the Philippines, September Ronald I. McKinnon and Kenichi Ohno, Dollar Cheryl W. Gray and Daniel Kaufmann, aSntde faJniot enPdargai olSar,i vaJsothanv a,K elMleanibnesrtgr,e aLmairnsg Vidaeus, and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict between the Corruption and Development, March United States and Japan, reviewed by George S Biodiversity in Agricultural Development, March Tavlas, March Dale Gray, Energy Tax Reform in Russia and Michael Potashnik and Joanne Capper, Other Former Soviet Union Countries, September Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff, Distance Education: Growth and Diversity, Foundations of International Macroeconomics John Green and Phillip L. Swagel, The Euro Area March reviewed by Peter Clark, December and the World Economy, December Alessandro Prati and Garry J. Schinasi, Hiroyuki Odagiri and Akira Goto, Technolologg y Manuel Guitian, The Challenge of Managing Ensuring Financial Stability in the Euro Area, and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Global Capital Flows, June December Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, and Erwin Lant Pritchett and Daniel Kaufmann, Civil Policy, reviewed by Robert Dekle, March Tiongson, Public Spending on Human Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Louis W. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers Development, September Government Projects, March Surveillance and Control in the World Economy Daniel C. Hardy, Are Banking Crises Predictable? Christoph B. Rosenberg and Tapio O. reviewed by Joaquin Ferran, September December Saavalainen, Dealing with Azerbaijan’s Oil M.G. Quibria and J. Malcolm Dowling, editors, Peter S. Heller, Agi ng in the Asian Tiger Boom, September Current Issues in Economic Development: An Economies, June Jan Aart Scholte, The IMF Meets Civil Society, Asian Perspective, reviewed by Qaizar Hussain IMF Area Department Directors, How Has the September December Asian Crisis Affected Other Regions? September Lyn Squire, Confronting AIDS, March H.N. Ray, The World Bank: A Third World View IMF Staff, The Asian Crisis: Causes and Cures, Vito Tanzi, Economic Policy and Equity reviewed by Paul Streeten, March June Conference Participants Agree on Key Issues, Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? IMF Staff, Currency Crises: The Role of Monetary September reviewed by Lant Pritchett, December Policy, March George S. Tavlas, The International Use of Anne C.M. Salda, Historical Dictionary of the IMF Staff, Mitigating the Social Costs of the Currencies: The U.S. Dollar and the Euro, June World Bank, reviewed by James Feather, March Asian Crisis, September Frank Vogl, The Supply Side of Global Bribery, Arieh A. Ullmann and Alfred Lewis, editors, IMF Staff, Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic June Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Policy? September Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Harold James, From Grandmotherliness to Book Reviews Europe, reviewed by Raj M. Desai, December Governance: The Evolution of IMI Isher Judge Ahluwalia and I.M.D. Little, editors, Horst Ungerer, A Concise History of European Conditionality, December India’s Economic Reforms and Development Monetary Integration From EPU to EMU, R. Barry Johnston, Sequencing Capital Account Essays for Manmohan Singh, reviewed by reviewed by Charles Enoch, June Liberalization, December Mohsin S. Khan, September Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Oussama Kanaan, Uncertainty Deters Private Alan S. Blinder, Central Banking in Theory and Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Investment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Practice, reviewed by Manuel Guitian, June Government and the Marketplace That Is June Remaking the Modern World, reviewed by Claire Catherine Caufield, Masters of Illusion: The Robert Klitgaard, International Cooperation World Bank and the Poverty of Nations, reviewed Liuksila, September Against Corruption, March by Paul Streeten, March Finance & Development /D ecember 1998 Klaas Knot, Donogh McDonald, and Karen Bimal Chakraborty, The United Nations and the Articles Swiderski, Policy Challenges for the Euro Area, Third World: Shifting Paradigms, reviewed by Martha Ainsworth, Setting Government December Sanjeev Gupta, June Priorities in Preventing HIV/AIDS, March Patrick Lenain, Ten Years of Transition: A Roy Culpeper, Tita:is or Behemoths? The Tomas J.T. Balifio, Monetary Policy in Russia, Progress Report, September Multilateral Development Banks, Volume 5 December lan Lienert, Civil Service Reform in Africa reviewed by Robert Picciotto, June James M. Boughton, Harry Dexter White and Mixed Results After 10 Years, June Roy Culpeper, Albert Berry, and Frances the International Monetary Fund, September John Lipsky, Asia’s Crisis: A Market Perspective, Stewart, editors, Global Development Fifty Years Sharmini Coorey, Mauro Mecagni, and Erik June After Bretton Woods: Essays in Honour of Gerald Offerdal, Achieving Low Inflation in Transition K. Helleiner, reviewed by Vinod Thomas and Paul R. Masson, Miguel A. Savastano, and Sunil Economies: The Role of Relative Price Adjustment, Sarwar Lateef, December Sharma, Can Inflation Targeting Be a Framework March for Monetary Policy in Developing Countries? Marcello De Cecco, Lorenzo Pecchi, and Michael C. Deppler, The Implications of EMI March Gustavo Piga, editors, Managing Public Debt for IMF Surveillance, December Index-Linked Bonds in Theory and Practice, Donald J. Mathieson, Anthony Richards, and Barry Eichengreen and Michael Mussa, Capital Sunil Sharma, Financial Crises in Emerging reviewed by Graeme Wheeler, September Account Liberalization and the IMF, December Markets, December Kimberly Ann Elliott, editor, Corruption and the Charles Enoch and Anne-Marie Gulde, Are Global Economy, reviewed by Daniel Kaufmann, Paolo Mauro, Corruption: Causes, Consequences, Currency Boardsa Cure for All Monetary March and Agenda for Further Research, March Problems? December Richard H.R. Harper, Inside the IMF: An Ashoka Mody and Michael Walton, Building on Charles A. Enoch, Paul L. Hilbers, and Arto Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and East Asia’s Infrastructure Foundations, June Kovanen, Monetary Operations in the European Organizational Action, reviewed by Brian ¢ Economic and Monetary Union, June Saleh M. Nsouli and Mounir Rached, Capital Stuart, December Account Liberalization in the Southern Julian Exeter and Steven Fries, The Post lan G. Heggie and Piers Vickers, Commercial Mediterranean, December Communist Transition: Patterns and Prospects Management and Financing of Roads, reviewed September Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, What Lessons Does by Gabriel Roth, December the Mexican Crisis Hold for Recovery in Asia? Stanley Fischer, The Asian Crisis and the Devesh Kapur, John P. Lewis, and Richard June Changing Role of the IMF, June Webb, The World Bank: Its First Half Century Philip Gerson, Poverty and Economic Policy in MMaeracdh Over, Coping with the Impact of AIDS, reviewed by James M. Boughton, June the Philippines, September Ronald I. McKinnon and Kenichi Ohno, Dollar Cheryl W. Gray and Daniel Kaufmann, aSntde faJniot enPdargai olSar,i vaJsothanv a,K elMleanibnesrtgr,e aLmairnsg Vidaeus, and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict between the Corruption and Development, March United States and Japan, reviewed by George S Biodiversity in Agricultural Development, March Tavlas, March Dale Gray, Energy Tax Reform in Russia and Michael Potashnik and Joanne Capper, Other Former Soviet Union Countries, September Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff, Distance Education: Growth and Diversity, Foundations of International Macroeconomics John Green and Phillip L. Swagel, The Euro Area March reviewed by Peter Clark, December and the World Economy, December Alessandro Prati and Garry J. Schinasi, Hiroyuki Odagiri and Akira Goto, Technolologg y Manuel Guitian, The Challenge of Managing Ensuring Financial Stability in the Euro Area, and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Global Capital Flows, June December Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, and Erwin Lant Pritchett and Daniel Kaufmann, Civil Policy, reviewed by Robert Dekle, March Tiongson, Public Spending on Human Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Louis W. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers Development, September Government Projects, March Surveillance and Control in the World Economy Daniel C. Hardy, Are Banking Crises Predictable? Christoph B. Rosenberg and Tapio O. reviewed by Joaquin Ferran, September December Saavalainen, Dealing with Azerbaijan’s Oil M.G. Quibria and J. Malcolm Dowling, editors, Peter S. Heller, Agi ng in the Asian Tiger Boom, September Current Issues in Economic Development: An Economies, June Jan Aart Scholte, The IMF Meets Civil Society, Asian Perspective, reviewed by Qaizar Hussain IMF Area Department Directors, How Has the September December Asian Crisis Affected Other Regions? September Lyn Squire, Confronting AIDS, March H.N. Ray, The World Bank: A Third World View IMF Staff, The Asian Crisis: Causes and Cures, Vito Tanzi, Economic Policy and Equity reviewed by Paul Streeten, March June Conference Participants Agree on Key Issues, Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? IMF Staff, Currency Crises: The Role of Monetary September reviewed by Lant Pritchett, December Policy, March George S. Tavlas, The International Use of Anne C.M. Salda, Historical Dictionary of the IMF Staff, Mitigating the Social Costs of the Currencies: The U.S. Dollar and the Euro, June World Bank, reviewed by James Feather, March Asian Crisis, September Frank Vogl, The Supply Side of Global Bribery, Arieh A. Ullmann and Alfred Lewis, editors, IMF Staff, Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic June Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Policy? September Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Harold James, From Grandmotherliness to Book Reviews Europe, reviewed by Raj M. Desai, December Governance: The Evolution of IMI Isher Judge Ahluwalia and I.M.D. Little, editors, Horst Ungerer, A Concise History of European Conditionality, December India’s Economic Reforms and Development Monetary Integration From EPU to EMU, R. Barry Johnston, Sequencing Capital Account Essays for Manmohan Singh, reviewed by reviewed by Charles Enoch, June Liberalization, December Mohsin S. Khan, September Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The Oussama Kanaan, Uncertainty Deters Private Alan S. Blinder, Central Banking in Theory and Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Investment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Practice, reviewed by Manuel Guitian, June Government and the Marketplace That Is June Remaking the Modern World, reviewed by Claire Catherine Caufield, Masters of Illusion: The Robert Klitgaard, International Cooperation World Bank and the Poverty of Nations, reviewed Liuksila, September Against Corruption, March by Paul Streeten, March Finance & Development /D ecember 1998 ene i Pees bess 2,