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I. The role of the IMF and reform of the international financial systems: 1. Introduction: On the need for an international lender of last resort / Stanley Fischer ; 2. Introduction: The IMF and the world Bank at fifty / Stanley Fischer ; 3. Introduction: The IMF and the Asian crisis / Stanley Fischer ; 4. Introduction: The role of the IMF : presentation to the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission / Stanley Fischer ; 5. Introduction: Capital account liberalization and the role of the IMF / Stanley Fischer ; 6. Introduction: Reforming the international financial system / Stanley Fischer -- II. Macroeconomic policy, stabilization and transition: 7. Introduction: Modern central banking / Stanley Fischer ; 8. Introduction: Exchange rate regimes: Is the bipolar view correct? / Stanley Fischer ; 9. Introduction: Modern hyer- and high inflations / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh ; 10. Introduction: Ending modern inflations / David Burton and Stanley Fischer ; 11. Introducntion: Recollections of the United States' role in the Israeli stabilization / Stanley Fischer ; 12. Introduction: Stabilization and growth in transition economies : the early experience / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh ; 13. Introduction: How far is Eastern Europe from Brussels? / Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos Végh -- III. Poverty and development: 14. Inflation and the poor / William Easterly and Stanley Fischer ; 15. Introduction: ABCDE : past ten years, next ten years / Stanley Fischer ; 16. Introduction: Economic reform and the poor / Stanley Fischer.