The establishment in 1944 of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank remains one of the most important achievements of international economic cooperation....

The biennial Africa Competitiveness Report 2000/2001 (ACR) is a major research activity of the World Economic Forum. Oxford is pleased to make available for the first time a reasonably priced paperback edition of this invaluable resource....

For over a decade, central and eastern Europe has been at the center of one of the most profound economic and political transformation in history. At the start of the 1990\'s, the region embarked on an ambitious reform program to depart from central planning towards more market-based economies....

Very little has been written or published on the global experience vis-a-vis information technology that puts both developed and developing countries into a larger context from which lessons can be extrapolated....