Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Handbook Team and Acknowledgments -- 1 Developing a Government Bond Market: An Overview -- 2 Money Markets and Monetary Policy Operations -- 3 A Government Debt Issuance Strategy and Debt Management Framework -- 4 Developing Benchmark Issues -- 5 Developing a Primary Market for Government Securities -- 6 Developing the Investor Base for Government Securities -- 7 Developing Secondary Market Structures for Government Securities -- 8 Developing a Government Securities Settlement Structure -- 9 Legal and Regulatory Framework -- 10 Development of Government Securities Markets and Tax Policy -- 11 Development of Subnational Bond Markets -- 12 Development of Private Sector Bond Markets -- Bibliography -- Glossary.