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| | | Selected
papers of
Augusto Lopez-Claros |
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are
links to selected papers published in various
text books, journals, and reports. |
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- Innovation Capacity Index: Factors, Policies, and Institutions Driving Country Innovation (with Yasmina N. Mata) (in The Innovation for Development Report 2009–2010) - [pdf]
- The European Community: On the
Road to
Integration (in Finance & Development,
quarterly
publication of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank,
September 1987) - [pdf]
- Implications of European
Economic
Integration (in World Order, Winter
1995-96) -
[pdf]
- Interdependence,
Cooperation, and the Emergence of Global Institutions
(in World
Order,
Summer 1996) - [Html]
[pdf (A4)]
[pdf (Letter)]
- The
Fund's Role in Russia (debriefing
paper
prepared prior to return to IMF Headquarters,
19
June 1996 [for distribution to senior IMF
management]) - [pdf (A4)] [pdf (Letter)]
- Fiscal Policy Issues During the
Transition in
Russia (with
Sergei V. Alexashenko)
(Occasional Paper 155, International Monetary Fund,
March 1998) - [pdf]
- The
Baltic Countries: From Economic Stabilization to EU Accession
(with Julian Berengaut, Françoise Le Gall, Jerald
Alan
Schiff, Dennis Jones, Richard E. Stern, Kerstin Westin, L. Effie
Psalida, and Pietro Garibaldi) (Occasional Paper 173, International
Monetary Fund, 25 November 1998) [Order
from IMF here]
- Turkey:
Regaining Credibility In Economic Policy
(in Global Economic
Research Series, 23 May 2000, Lehman Brothers)
- [pdf]
- Economic Reforms:
Steady As She Goes - A Decade of Russian Economic
Reforms (with
Mikhail M. Zadornov)
(in The Washington
Quarterly, Winter 2002. Volume 25, Number 1)
- [pdf]
- The
Role of International Financial Organizations During the Transition
in Russia (in
Social Capital and
Social Cohesion in
Post-Soviet Russia, J.L. Twigg and K. Schecter, editors,
2003, M.E. Sharpe) - [pdf (A4)] [pdf (Letter)]
- Varieties of Economic Experience
in the Developing
World (in The Global Competitiveness
Report
2003-2004, World Economic Forum, Oxford
University
Press, 2004) - [pdf]
- Chile: The Next Stage of
Development (in The Global Competitiveness
Report
2004-2005, World Economic Forum, Palgrave
Macmillan,
2004*) -
[pdf]
- Russia: Competitiveness, Growth
and the Next Stage
of Development (in
The Global
Competitiveness Report
2005-2006, World Economic Forum, Palgrave Macmillan,
2005*)
- [pdf]
Russian translation by Vladimir Chupin: [pdf (Russian)] - Israel:
Factors in the Emergence
of an ICT
Powerhouse (with
Irene Mia) (in
The Global Information
Technology
Report 2005-2006, World Economic Forum, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006*)
- [pdf]
- The
Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the
Economic Competitiveness and Social Development of
Taiwan (with
Arthur L. Dahl) (in
The Global Information
Technology
Report 2005-2006, World Economic Forum, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006*)
- [pdf]
- The
Global Competitiveness Index: Identifying the Key Elements of
Sustainable Growth (with
Laura Altinger, Jennifer Blanke, Margareta Drzeniek, and Irene
Mia) (in The Global
Competitiveness Report 2006-2007, World Economic
Forum,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006*)
- [pdf]
- The
Humanitarian Response Index 2007: Measuring Commitment to Best
Practice (with
Laura Altinger and
Silvia Hidalgo) (Palgrave Macmillan,
2007*)
- [pdf]
- Why Diversity in the Marketplace Matters (BreakThru Magazine, March/April
2008)
- [pdf]
* Posted with the kind permission of
Palgrave
Macmillan.
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|  | International
Monetary Convention Project
The Asian
financial
crises in the late 1990s, the Russian meltdown in the summer of
1998, and the collapse in Argentina and Turkey earlier this decade
raise fundamental questions about the resilience of the
international financial system and its ability to cope with the
next crash. Does the international economy have the appropriate
institutions and institutional mechanisms in place to deal with
emerging crises? What are the benefits and costs of our present
approach to crises management, which involves a considerable degree
of improvisation and ad-hoc approaches, and can a case be made for
the introduction of more formal arrangements? Could the IMF become
a lender of last resort for the global economy and, if not, what
are some of the reforms that might make it a more effective crisis
manager? There may well be greater consensus today that the
international financial system needs to be reformed, but there
remain profound disagreements among policy makers and the private
sector about how far and deep the reforms should
go.
| To examine
these and
related questions, the World Economic Forum and the Reinventing
Bretton Woods Committee, in co-operation with selected
finance ministries and central banks of G-20 countries, organized
during 2004-2006 a series of public-private roundtables on the
future of the international monetary system. The International
Monetary Convention Project (IMCP) sought to provide input into the
deliberations of policy-makers by convening them for informal
sessions with some of the world’s leading private sector and
academic authorities. Some of these roundtables were organized
around G-20 meetings, in cooperation with the host government. Each
roundtable was supported by research papers written by prominent
academics, officials and private sector participants. The book
The International
Monetary
System, the IMF, and the G-20, edited by Richard Samans,
Marc Uzan and Augusto Lopez-Claros and published by Palgrave
Macmillan in early 2007 is the fruit of those efforts. Below we
include summaries of some of the roundtables, covering a
representative sample of the central issues
debated.
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- Sixty Years After
Bretton
Woods:
Developing a
Vision for the Future (Summary) (Rome,
Italy, July
2004) - [pdf (A4)]
[pdf (Letter)]
- IMF's
Role in Emerging Markets: Reassessing the Adequacy of its Resources
and Lending Facilities
(Summary)
(Amsterdam,
Netherlands, November 2004) - [Html]
[pdf (A4)]
[pdf (Letter)]
- International
Economic Cooperation for a Balanced
World Economy
(Summary)(Chongqing,
China, March 2005) - [pdf (A4)] [pdf (Letter)]
- Sovereign
Debt and Innovative Financing Instruments
for Emerging Markets (Summary)
(Izmir,
Turkey, May 2005) - [pdf (A4)] [pdf (Letter)]
- The
Evolving Role of the Bretton Woods Institutions: Where Do We
Stand? (Summary)
(Paris, France, July
2005) - [pdf (A4)] [pdf (Letter)]
- Reforming the IMF: Some Initial
Proposals (Moscow, Russia, March 2002) - [pdf (A4)]
[pdf (Letter)]
| | The Humanitarian Response
Index
In
2003, the international donor community resolved to
strengthen its response to humanitarian crises and undertook to
enhance effectiveness, efficiency and accountability of their
humanitarian action by endorsing the Stockholm Principles and Good Practice of
Humanitarian
Donorship. These spell out the principles that should
guide
humanitarian action, namely humanity, impartiality, neutrality and
independence, as well as those imbedded in the body of
international human rights and humanitarian law.
Since
then, there has been considerable
interest within the donor community in indicators that can track
progress towards the Stockholm Principles.
Three years ago the Good
Humanitarian Donorship’s informal Implementation Group began work
to develop a set of indicators that could monitor how donors are
collectively delivering against some of their commitments. While
this process is encouraging, the lack of comprehensive impact
indicators for measuring individual donor performance continues to
be identified by the donor community as an outstanding
challenge.
|  | As an independent,
not-for-profit organization, DARA has embarked on creating its
Humanitarian Response
Index (HRI) that will measure how well individual donors
and
adherents to the Stockholm Principles are living up to their
commitments. The HRI is intended to help the international
humanitarian donor community to better understand its strengths and
weaknesses in order, ultimately, to improve its ability to
alleviate human suffering in crisis situations through improved
humanitarian aid delivery.
An international
benchmarking mechanism
such as the HRI would be an effective instrument to complement the
voluntary and non-binding commitment donors have made to the GHD
Principles.
Other policy
areas, such as the environment, have seen greatly improved policy
outcomes coinciding with the introduction of benchmarking which has
contributed to improve efficiency and correct deficiencies in the
policy framework through public and peer pressure. The first
edition of the HRI is published by Palgrave Macmillan and was
formally launched at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 29
November 2007. Augusto Lopez-Claros is co-editor of the
Report.
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- The
Humanitarian Response Index 2007: Measuring Commitment to Best
Practice (with
Laura Altinger and
Silvia Hidalgo) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) - [pdf]
- The Humanitarian Response Index
2007 (presentation notes of Augusto
Lopez-Claros
at the public launch of the Report, Royal Society of Arts, London,
29 November 2007) - [pdf]
- US, Japan and France Poor at
Giving
(Financial
Times, 30 November 2007) - [pdf]
- Tras
Una
Ayuda Humanitaria Más Eficaz
(El Mundo, Madrid, 1
December 2007) -
[pdf]
[Letter]
- La
Ayuda
Fracasa, pero África
Despega (El País, Madrid, 3
December 2007) -
[pdf]
| | |  | Toward
Gender Equality
- Women's
Empowerment: Measuring the
Global Gender
Gap (with Saadia
Zahidi, World Economic
Forum, 2005) - [pdf];
Also available at: [Harvard Business Online]
- United
Nations Commission on the Status of Women: Financing for Gender
Equality--High Level Round Table
(52nd Session, 25 February 2008)
- [pdf]
- United
Nations Commission on the Status of Women: Financing for Gender
Equality--The Empowerment of Women
(52nd Session, 28 February 2008)
- [pdf]
- Video Address at the United Nations High Level Round Table on Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (52nd Session) - [YouTube] (3 min.)
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