Finance and the international financial architecture -- Law, finance and development -- Law, financial stability and the international financial architecture -- Foundations of finance -- Preconditions for and institutional underpinnings of finance -- Central banking and financial policy -- Financial infrastructure -- Financial regulation and supervision -- Banking: regulation, supervision and development -- Nonbank finance: securities, insurance, pensions and microfinance -- Financial liberalization, financial conglomerates and financial regulatory structure -- Looking forward -- The international financial architecture -- Reforming financial systems.