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Targeting Iran / [conversation with] Noam Chomsky -- The mullahs face off : Washington versus Tehran / [conversation with] Ervand Abrahamian -- Culture and resistance : writing back to power / [conversation with] Nahid Mozaffari

"Inflation targeting is a monetary-policy strategy that is characterized by an announced numerical inflation target, an implementation of monetary policy that gives a major role to an inflation forecast and has been called forecast targeting, and a high degree of transparency and accountability. It was introduced in New Zealand in 1990, has been very successful in terms of stabilizing both inflation and the real economy, and has, as of 2010, been adopted by about 25 industrialized and emerging-market economies. The chapter discusses the history, macroeconomic effects, theory, practice, and future of inflation targeting"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Defining and explaining civilian victimization -- Statistical tests : civilian victimization, mass killing, and civilian casualties in interstate wars -- The starvation blockades of World War I : Britain and Germany -- Strategic bombing in World War II : the firebombing of Japan and the blitz -- Guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency, and civilian victimization : the second Anglo-Boer War -- Territorial annexation and civilian victimization : the founding of the state of Israel, 1947-49 -- Negative cases : why civilian victimization doesn't happen

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act, by Stephen A. Wandner -- 2 - Predicting the Exhasution of Unemployment Compensation, by Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, and Daniel H. Klepinger -- Comments on Chapter 2, by Mark C. BErger -- 3 - Evaluation of WPRS System, by Katherine P. Dickinson, Paul T. Decker, and Suzanne D. Kreutzer -- Comments on Chapter 3, by Walter Nicholson -- Comments on Chapter 3, by John Heinberg -- 4 - A Panel Discussion on the WPRS System, Panel Chair: Pete Fleming, Panelists: Al Jaloviar, Helen Parker, and Marc Perrett -- Comments on Part I: The Changing Role of the Public Employment Service, by David E. Balducchi -- 5 - Profiling in Self-Employment Assistance Programs, by Jon C. Messenger, Carolyn Peterson-Vaccaro, and Wayne Vroman -- Comments on Chapter 5, by Jacob M. Benus -- Comments on Chapter 5, by Wayne Gordon -- 6 - Targeting Reemployment Bonuses, by Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, and Stephen A. Wandner -- Comments on Chapter 6, by Jennifer Warlick -- 7 - Measures of Program Performance and the Training Choices of Displaced Workers, by Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan -- Comments on Chapter 7, by Kevin Hollenbeck -- 8 - Using Statistical Assessment Tools to Target Services to Work First Participants, by Randall W. Eberts -- 9 - Targeting Job Retention Services for Welfare Recipients, by Anu Rangarajan, Peter Schochet, and Dexter Chu -- Comments on Chapters 8 and 9, by Don Oellerich -- Comments on Chapter 9, by Timothy J. Bartik -- 10 - Targeting Reemployment Services in Canada: The Service and Ooutcome Measurement System (SOMS) Experience, by Terry Colpitts -- Comments on Chapter 10, by Jeffrey Smith.

This paper evaluates whether Georgia is ready to adopt inflation targeting (IT), a monetary policy framework that several emerging markets have adopted recently. After reviewing selected prerequisites for successfully implementing IT, the paper focuses on whether one specific precondition is in place-an empirically stable monetary transmission mechanism. Building on a baseline VAR model, it presents several extensions to explore the various channels using causality tests, impulse responses, and variance decompositions. The paper finds that once the central bank overcomes some institutional and

Following a comprehensive overview by the editor, this book offers a detailed assessment of the results of directly channelling resources to the poor and extensively discusses the experience of five Asian countries--India, Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines and Thailand