At Whose Service? Employment Effects of Services Trade Reform in the MENA Region and Sub-Saharan Africa
2 October 2014 Trade,
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Employment,
Services Trade Trade in services is the new frontier in international trade theory and practice. Modern trade agreements go beyond the removal of traditional barriers to goods trade, such as tariffs, and increasingly deal with issues previously thought to be of strictly domestic concern, notably in the
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Monetary Policy and Resource Security
22-24 April, 2014 Monetary,
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Commodities,
Energy,
Resource Security Resource security – the capacity to meet current and future demand for food, water, land, energy and minerals – has been a key concern for policymakers for a long time. As global consumption levels rise, debates on how to safeguard natural capital are moving up
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Monetary Policy and Inequality
3-4 April 2014 Monetary,
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Inequality The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta organized a workshop on Monetary Policy and Inequality on 3-4 April 2014 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, income and wealth inequality has been rising in
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What is Sustainable Monetary Policy?
17 February 2014 Monetary,
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Alternative Currencies,
Commodities,
Financial Stability Colloquium on monetary policy, its impact on financial markets in general and commodity markets in particular, the role of deregulation in the financial crisis, and the potential of alternative currencies.
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