The gift relationship

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The United Nations social summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark in Mar 1995, discussed restrictions on foreign aid packages. The US decided to give 50% of the Agency for International Development's budget to private agencies rather than governments, in an effort to prevent misuse of funds.

Foreign Economic & Financial Assistance, Economic assistance, Foreign economic assistance, United States. Agency for International Development

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The insatiable in pursuit of the unquantifiable

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Emerging markets and developing countries are notorious for porous and incomplete data-gathering and reporting. Economists and business forecasters for several international investment houses describe how they try to overcome such problems, which usually overstate prosperity.

Economic Statistics & Research, Economic conditions, Government spending policy, Economic forecasting, Business forecasting

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Just what the doctors ordered? The Mexican currency crisis of 1995 led to prescriptions intended to keep financial panic from infecting emerging markets. They have not done the job

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International efforts to avert crises such as the Mexican peso problem of 1995 led to new ideas about the importance of information sharing, monitoring of emerging markets and international cooperation. Currency troubles now occurring in Southeast Asia are discussed.

Intnl Economic Policy, Analysis, International Monetary Fund, Prices and rates, International economic relations, Southeast Asia, Peso (Mexico)

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