Finance & Development, March 2015
- From the Editor: Down but Not Out
- People in Economics: Finder of Financial Fault Lines - profiles Raghuram Rajan, the prescient finance economist now steering India’s central bank
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Education, migration, and redistribution are key elements of a long-term solution to global unemployment
- Seven Lean Years: The global economy is in slow recovery from peak unemployment thanks to governments’ vigorous policy responses
- A Matter of Size: Sub-Saharan African businesses must produce more jobs to fulfill the region’s promise
- A Long Commute: Immigrants do more good than harm when they enter a country’s job market
- Toil and Technology: Innovative technology is displacing workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely
- The Shrinking Middle: Labor market trends portend a paradise for some workers, but continued purgatory for most
- Picture This: Back to Work - Global unemployment has fallen, but job growth remains sluggish
- Jobless in Europe: A solution to unemployment in the euro area demands both growth and a more flexible labor market
- Power from the People: The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top
- Point of View: The Foremost Priority - It’s time for a recovery led by wages and public investment
- Youth Echoes
- Currency Notes: Norway - Design, Democracy, and Daring
- Prognosis: Rosy - When it comes to long-term growth forecasts, economists tend to be overly optimistic
- Point of View: System Malfunction - The global economy is rife with imbalances that cannot be fixed under the present international monetary (non)system
- Back to Basics: Taxes in Practice - It is hard to design a fair and efficient revenue system
- Straight Talk: A Prudent Man’s Curse - Without the right public institutions, the temptation of power politics can imperil longer-term development goals
- Reducing Informality: It may be a great slogan, but it is of little value as a practical objective for tax reform
- How to Build a Better Future for Latin America: Latin America and the Challenges It Faces
- Book Reviews
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Point of View: System Malfunction - The global economy is rife with imbalances that cannot be fixed under the present international monetary (non)system
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- February 2015

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