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wartorn Europe after WW2. •The Two years later, the Bank issued its first loan: US$250 million to France for postwar reconstruction •From 1968-1981 it focused largely on poverty alleviation. •In the 1980s and 1990s its main focus was both debt management and structural adjustment. THE WORLD BANK’S ROLE It provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries ORGANIZATION • Board of Governors * policy makers at the World Bank * 187 members (member countries' ministers

lourdement endettés, a ravivé le débat sur le lien entre dette publique et croissance économique. L’article ci-contre traite de ces éventuels rapports d’un point de vue théorique et empirique. 1 Reinhart Carmen et Rogoff Kenneth, Growth in a Time of Debt, 2010. 2 Pour la majeure partie de ces pays industrialisés, les auteurs sont remontés jusqu’au XIXe siècle, voire même jusqu’en 1790 pour les États-Unis. Dans les PED, l’étude est généralement allée jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle. Aux États-Unis

Commission where most nations of the European Economic Community linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations relative to one another. Export subsidies : It’s a government policy to encourage export of goods and discourage sale of goods on the domestic market through low-costs loans or tax relief for exporters or government financed international advertising or R&D. It reduces the price paid by foreign importers, which means domestic consumers pay more than foreign consumers Export subsidies

On 14 May and 15 May 1997, the Thai baht was hit by massive speculative attacks. On 30 June 1997, Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said that he would not devalue the baht. This was the spark that ignited the Asian financial crisis as the Thai government failed to defend the baht, which was pegged to the U.S. dollar, against international speculators. Thailand's booming economy came to a halt amid massive layoffs in finance, real estate, and construction that resulted in huge numbers of workers

20. Although the traffic were very heavy, we managed to make it to the conference on time. No error. A A A A A A A A A A B B C B C C B B B C C D D D D B B B C B C D C C D C D D D D Six millions people turned up to the rally against the latest government legislation on exports. No error. We look forward to hear from you in the near future. No error. The preferred method of selection for recruiters it’s still the traditional interview. No error. The high cost of test new vaccines means that certain

until June 30, 2009, the Czech Republic for the first time access to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The president Vaclav Klaus, eurosceptic, not working towards an active presidency, opens a major political crisis in the Czech government in this presidency. Czech Chamber of Deputies gave its approval for ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon February 18, 2009 and the Senate May 6, 2009. But Vaclav Klaus multiplies maneuvers to delay the signature in the hope that the upcoming election

of the banks. To limit the risks of this new kind of credits, the banks used the securitization. Indeed they transformed this credits into securities on the stock market. Financial products like ABS ("asset backed securities"), CDO ("collateralized debt obligations") and SIV ("Special investment vehicles") were integrated in unit trusts that normally should have been safe. Quickly a tremendous amount of investors were in possession of one of these potentially dangerous financial products without knowing

Tableau 1. Indicateurs macroéconomiques et projections Pourcentage de variation annuelle, en volume (prix de 2005) 2010 Current prices (billion EUR) 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Gross domestic product (GDP) Private consumption Government consumption Gross fixed capital formation Housing Final domestic demand Stockbuilding1 Total domestic demand 1,046 605 225 232 76 1,062 6 1,068 0.1 -1.2 -0.5 -5.4 -12.5 -2.0 -0.1 -2.0 -1.6 -2.8 -4.8 -7.0 -8.7 -4

extensive time, expense, and expertise. As a result, households would prefer to leave this activity to others, and by definition, the resulting lack of monitoring would increase the riskiness of investing in corporate debt and equity markets. (b) The long-term nature of corporate equity and debt securities would likely eliminate at least a portion of those households willing to lend money, as the preference of many for near-cash liquidity would dominate the extra returns which may be available. (c) The

differ. Our investigations show that, in Côte d'Ivoire, the external debt became unsustainable after a period of solvency that take place from 1995 to 1998. Otherwise, the study reveals four main avenues through which effects of the external debt are transmitted to the economic growth and to the private investment: the external debt flow, the stock of the debt, the external debt service and the fiscal deficit. The external debt flow, contrary to what is noted in certain HIPC, contribute little to