IMF essays from a time of crisis : the international financial system, stabilization, and development / Stanley Fischer.

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On the need for an international lender of last resort / Stanley Fischer -- The IMF and the world Bank at fifty / Stanley Fischer -- The IMF and the Asian crisis / Stanley Fischer -- The role of the IMF : presentation to the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission / Stanley Fischer -- Capital account liberalization and the role of the IMF / Stanley Fischer -- Reforming the international financial system / Stanley Fischer -- Modern central banking / Stanley Fischer -- Exchange rate regimes : Is the bipolar view correct? / Stanley Fischer -- Modern hyper- and high inflations / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh -- Ending modern inflations / David Burton and Stanley Fischer -- Recollections of the United States' role in the Israeli stabilization / Stanley Fischer -- Stabilization and growth in transition economies : the early experience / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh -- How far is Eastern Europe from Brussels? / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh -- Inflation and the poor / William Easterly and Stanley Fischer -- ABCDE : past ten years, next ten years / Stanley Fischer -- Economic reform and the poor / Stanley Fischer.