Reducing High Public Debt Ratios: Lessons from UK Experience*

Reducing Urban Poverty; Some Lessons from Experience

The Canadian Experience in Reducing Budget Deficits and Debt

Our general pattern of deficits and debt has much in common with that of many other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, including the United States—that is, a very high ratio of debt to GDP coming out of the Second World War, followed by a rapid decline of the debt ratio as the military was demobilized, as economic growth took off, and as the effective intere...

Lessons from Argentina’s Experience with the IMF, Debt and Financial Crises

A New World of Citizen Action, Analysis, and Policy Options However, facts and data indicate that the default and crisis were the logical outcome of a massive debt accumulation process which was the direct result of: 1) the negative effects of policy prescriptions by the IMF and the World Bank (WB), enthusiastically implemented by Argentine officials and 2) a series of exogenous shocks which ra...

High-tech biomedical research: lessons from Iran's experience

Iran has recently made a significant progress in the field of biomedical science and launched an appreciable number of new high-tech biomedical research projects. Review of Iran's experience in advancing its biomedical research and the pitfalls the country encountered during the years of its progress could be of interest to other countries with similar technological conditions. As needs assessm...

Sustainability of Public Debt