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Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK -- PERFORMANCE UNDER THE PROGRAM AND POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Program Performance -- B. Fiscal Policy -- C. Fiscal and Structural Reforms -- D. Monetary, Exchange Rate, and Financial Sector Policies -- PROGRAM MONITORING -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOX -- Inland Revenue Act -- FIGURES -- 1. Real Sector -- 2. Fiscal Sector -- 3. Financial Market -- 4. Foreign Exchange and Reserves -- 5. Monetary and Financial Sector -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2014-21 -- 2a. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2014-21 (In billions of rupees ) -- 2b. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2014-21 (In percent of GDP) -- 2c. Summary of Central Government Operations, 2016-17 -- 2d. Central Government Financing Needs, 2015-18 -- 3a. Monetary Accounts, 2014-17 -- 3b. Monetary Accounts, 2015-17 -- 4a. Balance of Payments, 2014-21 -- 4b. Balance of Payments, 2016-17 -- 4c. Gross External Financing, 2014-21 -- 5. Financial Soundness Indicators-All Banks, 2012-16 -- 6. Reviews and Purchases under the Three-year Extended Arrangement -- 7. Projected Payments to the Fund, 2016-2029 -- ANNEXES -- I. Debt Sustainability Analysis -- II. Tax Policy Options -- APPENDIX -- I. Letter of Intent -- Attachment I. Technical Memorandum of Understanding.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Guiding Ideas -- 22 Games -- 1. Arms Crossed: When conditions change, habits must change. -- 2. Avalanche: Understand the implicit rules. They can produce different results than desired or expected. -- 3. Balancing Tubes: You can't achieve long-term goals with short-term perspective. -- 4. The Bathtub Game: A level will decline only if outflows are greater than inflows. -- 5. Biodiversity Game: You can't change only one thing. -- 6. Circles in the Air: Our perspective affects the actions we take in complex systems. -- 7. Frames: To obtain consensus be clear about the mental framework you are using. -- 8. Group Juggle: Adding one more apparently minor problem can sometimes collapse the whole system. -- 9. Hands Down: When trying to understand a complex situation, don't limit your focus to where the action is. -- 10. Harvest: Over the long term, individuals often get more from cooperation than from competition. -- 11. Hit the Target: Delays between perception and response can lead to overshooting the goal. -- 12. Living Loops: It's easier to reach your goals by building a system that achieves them for you. -- 13. Paper Fold: With exponential growth, small growth rates can quickly lead to extremely large numbers. -- 14. Paper Tear: One-way communication is much less effective than interaction. -- 15. Pens: Sustainability depends more on culture than on technology. -- 16. Space for Living: Thinking outside the box can produce win-win solutions. -- 17. Squaring the Circle: Without a shared goal, cooperation is ineffective. -- 18. Thumb Wrestling: Life is not a zero-sum game. -- 19. Triangles: If you want big changes, look for the high-leverage points. -- 20. Warped Juggle: Incremental changes produce improvements -- structural changes produce transformation.

The navy and the nation -- Japan as a factor in British strategic thinking -- The impact of the First World War -- Politics, politicians and Whitehall -- The need for economy -- Washington, Tokyo and British interests in the Pacific -- Framing British naval policy -- Lee of Fareham's May Memorandum -- Next generation battleships -- Washington Conference -- Geddes and the Amery Memorandum -- Repercussions -- Aftermath

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editorial foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: Utopia(s) - Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary -- Utopia: A world to be, through denegation and affirmation of collective consciousness -- The four modes of thinking framed by utopian discursivity. Or why we need Utopia -- Miguel Real's O Último Europeu 2284, or a utopian questioning of our individual and collective freedom -- PART II: Architecture-Urbanism-Design

Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT: ROBUST GROWTH WITH GROWING VULNERABILITIES -- OUTLOOK AND RISKS -- POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Designing Fiscal Consolidation -- B. Managing Systemic Risks in the Financial Sector -- C. Lowering Unemployment and Reducing Inequality -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOXES -- 1. State Owned Enterprises in Namibia -- 2. Household Vulnerability -- 3. Increasing the Efficiency of Fiscal Policy to Reduce Inequality -- FIGURES -- 1. High Unemployment and Income Inequality -- 2. Robust Growth, Rising Inflation and Monetary Policy -- 3. Growing External Vulnerabilities -- 4. Rising Fiscal Vulnerabilities -- 5. Sound Banking Sector and Improved Financial Inclusion -- 6. Macrofinancial Risks from the Housing Market and Linkages Between Banks andNon-Bank Financial Institutions -- 7. High Unemployment and Employment Little Responsive to Growth -- 8. Structural Impediments Limiting Growth and Employment -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2013-21 -- 2. Balance of Payments, 2013-21 -- 3a. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2013/14-21/22 (N millions) -- 3b. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2013/14-21/22 (Percent of GDP) -- 4. Monetary Accounts, 2013-21 -- 5. Financial Sector Indicators, 2010-March 2016 -- 6. Millennium Development Goals, 1995-2015 -- ANNEXES -- I. External Sector Assessment -- II. Risk Assessment Matrix -- III. Debt Sustainability Analysis -- IV. Macro-Financial Risks from the Housing Boom -- CONTENTS -- FUND RELATIONS -- JOINT WORLD BANK AND IMF WORK PROGRAM -- STATISTICAL ISSUES.