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  • Reform of the International Monetary Fund
    By Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
    Council Special Report
    May 2007

  How Things Went Wrong in Argentina

  Author:	Peter B. Kenen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics

  September 2005
  Finance and Development

  Book Review

  And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina

  By Paul Blustein

  PublicAffairs, New York, 2005, 178 pp., $27.50 (cloth).

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  Paul Blustein has done it again. In 2001, he published The Chastening, a fascinating account of the currency and financial crises that began with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Based heavily on interviews with the main participants—officials of the crisis-stricken countries, those of the major industrial countries, and those of the IMF—it sought to explain how and why so many costly mistakes were made in responding to the crises. In his new book, And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out), Blustein turns to the Argentine crisis of 2001, relying once more on interviews with the key participants, but rounding out his story with vivid accounts of the terrible hardships suffered by the victims of the crisis.

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  New CFR Books

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

  

  In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?

  

  Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.

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  New from the Council: Policy Options Papers

  Kenya

  In this POP, Adjunct Fellow Michelle D. Gavin suggests steps the Bush administration could take to promote political and ethnic reconciliation and to restore the viability of Kenya’s governing institutions.

  Pakistan

  In this paper, Senior Fellow Daniel Markey poses a set of recommendations for the United States to consider in response to Pakistan’s ongoing political crisis.

  

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