MARCH 2012:
YOUTH FINDING A VOICE
Youth in the Balance
David E. Bloom
Frustrated and angry, the world's young
people are demanding change
IMF podcast:
Combating youth unemployment in Africa
Making the Grade
Emmanuel Jimenez,
Elizabeth M. King, and Jee-Peng Tan
Revamping what and how young people learn is
the best way to help them and their home
countries succeed
Straight Talk: Stolen Dreams
Nemat Shafik
Our ability to set the world economy
straight will decide the fate of today's
young people
IMF video:
Where are the
jobs? Generation Y asks
Voices of Youth
Around the world, young people speak out
IMF videos:
Global youth,
leaders of change
Empowering Women Is
Smart Economics
Ana Revenga and
Sudhir Shetty
Closing gender gaps also benefits countries
as a whole
Also in This Issue
Will the Renminbi Rule?
Eswar Prasad and Lei
Ye
The yuan is on track to become more
important globally, but is unlikely to
challenge the dollar anytime soon
IMF podcast: China rising
Protecting the Whole
Luis I. Jácome and
Erlend W. Nier
Keeping individual financial institutions
sound is not enough. A broader
macroprudential approach is needed
Ratings Game
Panayotis Gavras
Private credit rating agencies have been
thrust into providing a public function
because regulators have not come up with an
alternative
Picture This: Growing
Out of Poverty
Alicia Bárcena
Poverty in Latin America is at its lowest
level in 20 years
The Global Land Rush
Rabah Arezki, Klaus
Deininger, and Harris Selod
Foreign investors are buying up farmland in
developing countries
IMF podcast: Moving beyond agriculture
Departments
People in Economics
Back to Basics
What Is a Bank?
Jeanne Gobat
Institutions that match up savers and borrowers help
ensure that economies function smoothly
Book Reviews
Olivier J. Blanchard, David Romer, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power,
Prosperity, and Poverty,
Daron Acemoglu and James A.
Robinson
Finance and the Good Society,
Robert J. Shiller