Author/Editor: Agnes Belaisch, Charles Collyns, Paula De Masi, Guy Meredith, Anoop Singh, Reva Krieger, Robert Rennhack.

Release Date:February, 2005

This study examines external and domestic influences on Latin America’s economic performance over the past decade and a half. It notes that over the past few years, macroeconomic policies have more...

Author/Editor: G Russell Kincaid, Charles Collyns.

Release Date:April, 2003

This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin more...

Author/Editor: Abdelhak Senhadji, Charles Collyns.

Release Date:February, 2002

This paper examines the link between lending booms, asset price cycles, and financial crises across East Asian countries. Both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence support a strong more...

Author/Editor: Richard Hemming, Woosik Chu, Charles Collyns, Karen Elizabeth Parker, Ajai Chopra, Oliver Fratzscher.

Release Date:June, 1995

This paper explores the Indian adjustment program of 1991/92 and its initial results. The contents include long-term growth trends for output, investment, and macroeconomic condition; education, more...

Author/Editor: Mohamed A El-Erian, Charles Collyns.

Release Date:July, 1993

A number of developing countries, including some of the largest debtors, have recently completed comprehensive debt and debt service restructuring packages with their commercial bank creditors. The more...

Author/Editor: Charles Collyns.

Release Date:March, 1983