Finance & Development, March 1982

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Finance & Development, March 1982
- Bank activity: New approach to World Bank management; recent IDA credits and Bank loans
- Fund activity: Loans and purchases reach new high in 1981; data on Fund transactions and new loan commitments; Manaqinq Director’s speech at Davos
- Global interdependence in the 1980s: A selection from the speech delivered by the Bank’s President in Tokyo on January 13, 1982
- Future financing of the World Bank and IDA—some issues: Excerpts from Mr. Clausen’s remarks at a seminar in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 1982
- Surveillance over exchange rates: A review of the purposes and process of surveillance by the fun
- Debt in developing countries: some issues for the 1980s: Major questions arising out of the size of external debt and problems associated with servicing it
- Promoting trade among developing countries: an assessment: Is there an economic basis for promoting South-South trade? An empirical analysis
- Economic development and the private sector: Private enterprise and development—comparative country experience
- Comparing government expenditures internationally: A report on a study of government expenditures in over 90 countries and a means of comparing them
- Rehabilitating watersheds: Reforestation, though necessary, is only part of a broader development strategy to preserve watershed environments
- Narrowing regional disparities by fiscal incentives: A cost-benefit analysis in designing incentives could improve their effectiveness
- Review article: Oil and the world economy—a different perspective
- Book notices