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      • Business, Economics & Law

        Corporate Income Taxes Under Pressure

        Why Reform Is Needed and How It Could Be Designed

        by Ruud de Mooij, Alexander Klemm, Victoria Perry

        International tax issues have long been at the core of IMF research and the IMF has provided much advice on this topic. This book showcases research by IMF staff and builds on earlier studies on tax issues. Where appropriate it provides special coverage on developing countries. The book offers a complete assessment of the current international tax framework, suggestions for possible alternative architectures, and adds to the global debate on this important topic while remaining accessible to a relatively broad audience.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Breaking the Oil Spell

        The Gulf Falcons' Path to Diversification

        by Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, Min Zhu

        Breaking the Oil Spell sheds light on what constitutes true economic diversification and the role of the state in achieving it. Ultimately, this book aims to demonstrate that the great aspirations of the people of the Gulf countries and other oil exporters can become a reality. It distills lessons from the experiences of the Gulf countries today.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Well Spent

        How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment

        by Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, Geneviève Verdier

        The book covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Debt and Entanglements Between the Wars

        by Era Dabla-Norris, Thomas Sargent, Martin Ellison, George Hall, Harold James, Andrew Scott

        This edited volume focuses on the responses to the set of conditions created in the aftermath of World War I. The chapters provide a cross-country comparison of the interwar period from 1914 to 1940 and describes how fiscal policies affected political and economic interests, influenced alliances, defaults, and the unwinding of debts. This period in global economic history offers rich material for studying international monetary and debt policies.

      • Business, Economics & Law
        November 2023

        Shocks and Capital Flows

        Policy Responses in a Volatile World

        by Gaston Gelos and Ratna Sahay

        The high exposure of open economies to exogenous shocks makes them particularly vulnerable to volatile capital flows and advanced economy monetary policy spillovers. How should and do domestic policymakers respond? The traditional answer has been to use flexible exchange rates as a shock absorber. But flexible exchange rates may not offer full insulation when financial markets are imperfect. This book brings together recent empirical studies at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the effectiveness of different tools in responding to such shocks.  The chapters in this volume provide a rich background to the recently launched Integrated Policy Framework by the IMF. They comprise assessments of countries’ actual use of different tools, as well as in-depth evaluation of their effectiveness and side effects, covering macroprudential policies, monetary policy, foreign-exchange intervention, and capital flow management policies. Many of the studies involve new data and methods to tackle the inherently difficult problems in identifying and comparing the effects of policies under different circumstances. As a result, the volume offers the reader a comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the policy-oriented empirical research that has informed the development of a new way of thinking about open-economy macroeconomics at the IMF.

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