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Challenges of CAFTA: Challenges And Opportunities for Central America (Directions in Development)
$30.00
The report provides a preliminary assessment of DR-CAFTA, with particular attention to three key themes: (i) expected trade and non-trade benefits, (ii) actions that Central American countries need to pursue to capitalize optimally on the new opportunities, and (iii) identification of the population groups that may require assistance to adapt to a more competitive environment. The Introductory Chapter reviews the main findings of the report. Chapter II places DR-CAFTA in the historical context of the economic reforms that Central America has been undertaking since the late 1980s. Chapter III provides a summary overview of the recently negotiated DR-CAFTA. Chapter IV reviews various analyses that assess the potential impacts of DR-CAFTA in Central American countries. Chapter V focuses on the identification of potentially affected populations from the easing of trade restrictions in sensitive agricultural products and analyzes policy options to assist vulnerable groups. Chapter VI reviews evidence related to key macroeconomic implications of DR-CAFTA, namely the potential revenue losses and effect on the patterns of business-cycle synchronization. Chapter VII reviews evidence from each Central American country in the areas of trade facilitation, institutional and regulatory reforms, and innovation and education, in order to identify key priorities for the complementary agenda for DR-CAFTA.

Aging Population, Pension Funds, and Financial Markets: Regional Perspectives and Global Challenges for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (Directions in Development)
$25.00
Population aging is expected to affect the performance of financial markets in developed and emerging economies at a time when ever more countries are relying on funded provisions for old age income support. This study investigates the challenges faced by these former transition countries in the context of international experience from the OECD and Latin America. The overarching conclusion of this study is that these challenges can be addressed but addressing them will require determined policy actions to complete financial market development and to promote financial literacy through education.

The Central Banks: The International and European Directions
$119.95
This work is a study of the Keynes and Friedman approaches to the institutions which implement monetary and other related policies. The policy of the United States is reviewed, in part, because of the U.S.'s rather central role in developments since World War I. The exchange-rate, reserve, and capital-flow mechanisms of the central banks are discussed from an historical perspective. The major interconnections between money, credit-creating potential of central banks, and fiscal/deficit potential of government are emphasized. The principal central banks considered are the Bank of England, Federal Reserve, and Bundesbank.

Central Virginia showing Maj. Gen'l P. H. Sheridan's campaigns and marches of the cavalry under his command in 1864-65 drawn and lithographed under direction of Brvt. Maj. G. L. Gillespie, U.S.A. Chief Eng. Mil. Div. of the Gulf, Oct. 1865. Drawn fo (Civil War Map Reprint measured in inches 26 x 36)
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High quality reproduction of an historic map from the Civil War Map Collection from the Library of Congress. Authentic map that was hand drawn during or soon after the Civil War depicting important historical events and battles. These are High Quality Prints offered by Blackstone Lithographs.