With the Scooby gang on the skids, Buffy finds herself increasingly alone. When faced with some tough decisions grounded in \"real world\" problems (i.e., not the slaying of pesky demons), Buffy is determined to make her own choices, but that doesn\'t mean she won\'t need a little handholding along the way....

First published in 1983, this is the second of two volumes on the causes and cure of stagflation a?? that combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation that is currently afflicting the mixed economies of the industrially developed world....

The first theoretical analysis of the Asian Financial Crisis--perhaps the single most important economic event of the 1990s--starts by presenting a factual and analytic overview of what happened. It goes on to consider why crisis turned into collapse, speculative attacks, and contagion and finishes with a round table discussion of policy issues....

The World Bank is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable economic development and to poverty reduction throughout the developing world....