Authors:Anne-Marie Gulde, Charalambos Tsangaride,
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Keywords: international, monetary, fund, book, challenges, uncommon, franc, zone, common, currency, cfa
Number of Pages: 397
Published: 2008-03-30
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 1589066758
ISBN-13: 9781589066755

About one-third of countries covered by the IMF’s African Department are members of the CFA franc zone. With most other countries moving away from fixed exchange rates, the issue of an adequate policy framework to ensure the sustainability of the CFA franc zone is clearly of interest to policymakers and academics. However, little academic research on the subject exists in the public domain. This book aims to fill this void, by bringing together work undertaken in the context of intensified regional surveillance, and highlighting the current challenges and the main policy requirements if

Authors:Atish R. Ghosh, Anne-Marie Gulde, Holger C. Wolf,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: consequences, choices, regimes, rate, exchange
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0262072408
ISBN-13: 9780262072403

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency boards and dollarization at the other. While a vast theoretical literature explores the choice and consequences of exchange rate regimes, the abundance of possible effects makes it difficult to establish clear relationships between regimes and common macroeconomic policy targets such as inflation and growth. This book takes

Author: Anne-Marie Korte & Maaike de HaardtAnne-Marie
Publisher: Brill
Keywords: religion, theology, studies, monotheism, boundaries
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2009-01-31
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 9004173161
ISBN-13: 9789004173163

What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. Western monotheism proves itself to be multi-significant and heterogeneous, producing boundary-setting as well as boundary-crossing tendencies, is the common thesis of the authors of this book, who have been collectively debating this theme for two years in an interdisciplinary scholarly setting. Their c

Authors:Sylvie Huet, Anne Bouvier, Marie-Anne Poursat, Emmanu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: examples, springer, series, statistics, plus, guide, tools, nonlinear, regression, practical, statistical
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2003-09-12
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387400818
ISBN-13: 9780387400815

This book presents methods for analyzing data using parametric nonlinear regression models. Using examples from experiments in agronomy and biochemistry, it shows how to apply the methods. Aimed at scientists who are not familiar with statistical theory, it concentrates on presenting the methods in an intuitive way rather than developing the theoretical grounds. The book includes methods based on classical nonlinear regression theory and more modern methods such as the bootstrap that have proven effective in practice. The examples are analyzed with the software program nls2 implemented in S-PL

Author: Anne-Marie Fink
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: world, turned, upside, win, managers, makers, extraordinary, money
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307396304
ISBN-13: 9780307396303

When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor, she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term moneymakers–or rotten tomatoes–before investing with them. She has had unusual access to an incredible variety of businesses, from entertainment conglomerates to newspapers, Internet companies, airlines, railroads, furniture manufacturers, auto suppliers, staffing agencies, and othe

Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: order, world, new
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-07-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691123977
ISBN-13: 9780691123974

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It’s not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks." Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in whic

Author: Anne-Marie De Mejia
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Keywords: bilingual, bilingualism, education, elite, international, prestige, power, perspectives
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 1853595918
ISBN-13: 9781853595912

This text describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as "elite" or "prestigious" bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is disucssed and an argument made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.