IMF has a nice profile of Maria Ramos. He led to the reforms of South Africa after the end of apartheid regime.
Archive for October 1st, 2010
Profile of Maria Ramos – South African Financial Sector Reformer
October 1, 2010
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Two suggestions to impose restrictions on current account surplus economies
October 1, 2010Charles Goodhart & Dimitrios Tsomocos and Daniel Gros have two interesting suggestions.
Goodhart & Tsomocos propose that both the current accont deficit country and current account surplus country should pay a tax:
Basics of quantitative easing
October 1, 2010Talks of QE-II build up (infact market people are now debating how much of QE not whether there will be QE. It is being called Bernanke Put).
Alan Blinder presents a nice primer on quantitative easing in this year’s Homer Lecture at St Louis Fed. He summarises what happened in US and then comapres it with Japan.