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World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle »
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589067196.081
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
The global expansion is losing speed in the face of a major financial crisis. The slowdown has been greatest in the advanced economies, particularly in the United States, where the housing market correction continu...

World Economic Outlook, October 2010 : Recovery, Risk, and Rebalancing »
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 06 October 2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589069473.081
ISBN: 9781589069473
Keywords: fiscal consolidation, domestic demand, capital inflows, commodity prices, net exports
The recovery from the Great Recession is proceeding broadly as expected, but most advanced economies and a few emerging economies still face large adjustments, are recovering only sluggishly, and have continued hig...

Macroeconomic Adjustment and Reform in Planned Economies »
Source: Macroeconomic Adjustment and Reform in Planned Economies
Volume/Issue: 1990/27
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 1990
ISBN: 9781451981568
Keywords: excess demand, foreign trade, macroeconomic stabilization, domestic prices, credit policy
This paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic stabilization and market-oriented reform in planned economies. It emphasizes that market-oriented reform should enhance the likelihood that adjustment to e...

Market-Oriented Reform of Foreign Trade in Planned Economies »
Source: Market-Oriented Reform of Foreign Trade in Planned Economies
Volume/Issue: 1990/28
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 1990
ISBN: 9781451981131
Keywords: foreign trade, exchange rate, foreign exchange, domestic prices, exchange rate system
This paper reviews the main features of market-oriented foreign trade reforms in planned economies. It considers reform initiatives aimed at expanding enterprise autonomy and breaking up the state monopoly of forei...

CHAPTER 1. GLOBAL PROSPECTS AND POLICIES »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
Overview of Recent Developments and Prospects: Divergence but Not Decoupling The course of the global economy over the past six months has been shaped by the interaction of two power...

CHAPTER 2. COUNTRY AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
United States and Canada: How Long Will the Slowdown Last? The U.S. economy slowed markedly to grow 2.2 percent in 2007, down from almost 3 percent in 2006 (Table 2.1). The pace of a...

Chapter 3. THE CHANGING HOUSING CYCLE AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MONETARY POLICY »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
The recent booms in house prices and residential investment in many advanced economies, and the sharp correction that has followed in a few of them, have reignited the debate over the link between housing an...

Chapter 4. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
Climate change is a potentially catastrophic global externality and one of the world’s greatest collective action problems. The distribution of causes and effects is highly uneven across countries and across...

Chapter 5. GLOBALIZATION, COMMODITY PRICES, AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
Over the past couple of decades, and in particular over the past few years, many developing and emerging economies have become steadily more integrated into the world economy. International trade, in both ma...

ANNEX IMF EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSION OF THE OUTLOOK, MARCH 2008 »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2008 : Housing and the Business Cycle
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 April 2008
ISBN: 9781589067196
Keywords: commodity prices, emission, monetary policy, mortgage, domestic demand
The following remarks by the Acting Chair were made at the conclusion of the Executive Board’s discussion of the World Economic Outlook on March 21, 2008....