Part I
Economic Growth, Inflation, and Poverty
Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can be Done?
Ernesto Hernández-Catá
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies
Mahmood Hasan Khan
From Toronto Terms to the Enhanced HIPC Initiative: A Brief History of Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries
Christina Daseking and Robert Powell
Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the IMF
Thomas Wolf and Emine Gürgen
Real Effects of High Inflation
Benedikt Braumann
Part II
Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Vulnerability
Assessing Financial System Vulnerabilities
R. Barry Johnston, Jingqing Chai, and Liliana Schumacher
Trade Policy in Financial Services
Natalia Tamirisa, Piritta Sorsa, Geoffrey Bannister, Bradley McDonald, and Jaroslaw Wieczorek
Capital Flight from Russia
Prakash Loungani and Paolo Mauro
Part III
Exchange Rate Relations of Advanced Transition Economies
Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy of Transition Economies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Launch of EMU
Paul Masson
Pros and Cons of Currency Board Arrangements in the Lead-Up to EU Accession and Participation in the Euro Zone
Anne-Marie Gulde, Juha Kähkönen, and Peter Keller
Exchange Rate Regimes in Selected Advanced Transition Economies—Coping with Transition, Capital Inflows, and EU Accession
Robert Corker, Craig Beaumont, Rachel van Elkan, and Dora Iakova