Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xviii
4. Introduction and Overview 1
5. 1 Budget Constraints and Aggregate Accounts 10
6. 2 Consumption, Saving, and Investment 28
7. 3 Fiscal Deficits, Public Debt, and the Current Account 73
8. 4 The Financial System and Monetary Policy 114
9. 5 Exchange Rate Regimes 166
10. 6 Inflation and Disinflation Programs 207
11. 7 Capital Inflows: Causes and Policy Responses 247
12. 8 Financial Crises and Financial Volatility 292
13. 9 Policy Tools for Macroeconomic Analysis 359
14. 10 Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: Some Basic Facts 410
15. 11 Growth and Technological Progress: The Solow-Swan Model 439
16. 12 Knowledge, Human Capital, and Endogenous Growth 463
17. 13 The Determinants of Economic Growth: An Empirical Overview 511
18. 14 Trade and Labor Market Reforms 547
19. 15 Fiscal Adjustment and Financial Sector Reforms 582
20. 16 Aid, External Debt, and Growth 621
21. 17 Sequencing, Gradualism, and the Political Economy of Adjustment 653
22. References 685
23. Figure Credits 737
24. Index 739