Commandments Fiscal Adjustment (Blanchard and Cottarelli)
Ten Commandments for Fiscal Adjustment in Advanced Economies by Olivier Blanchard and Carlo Cottarelli offers commandments to make possible the difficult challenge faced by advanced economies of adjustment strategies without undermining a still fragile economic recovey.See in: http://www.eurointelligence.com/index.php?id=581&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2835&tx_ttnews[backPid]=901&cHash=064f3bd1a7
Tax Gap x Equity (Jiménez, Sabaini and Podestá)
Tax gap and equity in Latin America and Caribbean by Juan P. Jiménez, Juan C. Gómez Sabaini and Andrea Podestá. This publication reflets the on-going discussions about equity and taxation in Latin America. They arrive at a discouraging but realistic conclusion regarding the taxation of income in their respective countries: the levels of tax gaps are very high, ranging between appromately 40% and 65%. see: http://www.eclac.cl/cgi-bin/getProd.asp?xml=/publicaciones/sinsigla/xml/0/39960/P39960.xml&xsl=/de/tpl-i/p10f.xsl&base=/de/tpl-i/top-bottom.xsl
Fiscal Size (Posen)
The article "One Fiscal Size Does Not Fit All - a korean lesson for spain" by Adam Posen published on Eurointelligence is available in : http://www.eurointelligence.com/index.php?id=581&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2835&tx_ttnews[backPid]=901&cHash=064f3bd1a7
Inequidad Federativa (Frers)
Documento de Luciana Díaz Frers, Los caminos paralelos al laberinto de la coparticipacón, publicado por CIPPEC, analiza cómo los diferentes caminos por los cuales las provincias reciben fondos públicos reproducen la enorme inequidad que existe entre las diferentes jurisdicciones en la Argentina. En este contexto, los debates en el Congresso nacional reflejan una creciente tensión entre la Nación y las provincias por la distribución de fondos. ver: http://www.cippec.org/Main.php?categoryId=2&do=documentsShow
Competitiveness Agenda (Reis and Farole)
Trade and the competitiveness agenda, by José Guilherme Reis and Thomas Farole, published by The World Bank. This note discusses the renewed role of government in trade and growth policy from the competitiveness angle, and it suggests some priorities for the new competitiveness agenda. see: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP18.pdf
SEC Review (Ginty)
The article SEC 'Revolving Door' Under Review by Tom McGinty for The Wall Street Journal analyses the Securities and Exchange Commission's revolving door, which sends staffers to work in companies they once regulated. http://migre.me/ScQF
Regional Forecasts (World Bank)
The World Bank website presents prospects of the global economy in a page with data from previous years and future projections of a number of economic indicators in a simple and resumed way.The page also allows the search to be made by regions or countrys: http://migre.me/QWfX
Europe Austerity (CNNmoney)
The article What fiscal austerity looks like by Jeanne Sahadi, on CNNMoney, discusses various measures of fiscal austerity in progress in European countries, namely Greece, Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Portugal,Spain,France,Germany and United Kingdom. See: http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/europe_fiscal_austerity/index.htm
Asia Way (Singh)
The article Asia Leading the Way by Anoop Singh for the Finance and Development magazine of the IMF "explores how the region is moving into a leadership role in the world economy". See: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2010/06/pdf/singh.pdf
Capital Inflows (Ghosh)
The paper "Dealing with the Challenges of Capital Inflows in the Context of Macrofinancial Links" by Swati R. Ghosh published by The World Bank.The paper "examines potential policy responses to maintain macroeconomic and financial sector stability in the face of increased capital inflows". See: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP19.pdf