Vol. 54, No. 2 includes three notable contributions from the Seventh Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (ARC) hosted by the IMF in November 2006. Its lead

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information source

This paper analyzes the link between product variety and economic growth. It finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative

This issue features a timely paper by Vladimir Klyuev and Paul Mills on the role of personal wealth and home equity withdrawal in the decline in the U.S. saving

China’s growth performance since the start of economic reforms in 1978 has been impressive, but the gains have not been distributed equally across provinces.