Ms.Uma Ramakrishnan

Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean

This book provides a diagnosis of the central economic and financial challenges facing Caribbean policymakers and offers broad policy recommendations ...

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This book provides a diagnosis of the central economic and financial challenges facing Caribbean policymakers and offers broad policy recommendations ...

Advancing Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper examines the state of financial development in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region as well as potential growth and stability impli...

Capital Inflows and Balance of Payments Pressures

Tailoring Policy Responses in Emerging Market Economies

Although capital inflows are generally beneficial to recipient countries, they also pose a challenge for the conduct of economic policy. This paper pr...

Review of the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines

This paper focuses on the fact that the 2004–2005 conditionality review expands to include a review of the application of the new Guidelines on Cond...

IMF Support and Crisis Prevention

This paper examines the various roles of IMF financing in crisis prevention. Emerging market economies that experienced financial crises in the past h...