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The 2007 Annual Report to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2006, through April 30, 2007). This year's Report has been streamlined and translated into three more languages than in the past: Arabic, Japanese, and Russian. Besides an Overview, the chapters cover promoting financial and macroeconomic stability and growth through surveillance; program support; capacity building: technical assistance and training; and the IMF's governance, organization, and finances. The full financial statements for the year and other appendixes are provided on a CD-ROM. ISSN 0250-7498.

Finance: General --- Financial Risk Management --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Industries: Financial Services --- Labor Economics: General --- Financial Institutions and Services: General --- National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Finance --- Labour --- income economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Labor --- Financial sector --- Debt relief --- Emerging and frontier financial markets --- Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) --- Financial services industry --- Labor economics --- Debts, External --- Money laundering --- Income --- United States

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Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates are associated with much of the rise in women's aggregate participation rates within countries over time, but that policies are likely increasingly important for explaining differences across countries. Raising female participation could provide an important boost to growth, but women face two hurdles in participating in the workforce in Japan. First, few working women start out in career-track positions, and second, many women drop out of the workforce following childbirth. To increase women’s attachment to work Japan should consider policies to reduce the gender gap in career positions and to provide better support for working mothers.

Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Women''s Studies' --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Labor Economics Policies --- Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure --- Time Allocation and Labor Supply --- Labor Discrimination --- Economics of Gender --- Non-labor Discrimination --- Labor Economics: General --- Education: General --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Gender studies --- women & girls --- Labour --- income economics --- Education --- Women --- Labor markets --- Labor economics --- Labor market --- Economic theory --- Japan