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Agricultural Trade and Protection in Asia: Identifying hurdles to intra-regional trade »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1988
Volume/Issue: 25/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1988
ISBN: 9781616353759
Keywords: adjustment programs, structural adjustment, external shocks, aggregate demand, process of adjustment
This paper describes the effect of IMF-supported adjustment programs on the poor. The paper highlights that IMF-supported adjustment programs have often been misunderstood and have been criticized for seeking exces...
A Bayesian-Estimated Model of Inflation Targeting in South Africa »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 57, No. 2
Volume: 57
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 June 2010
ISBN: 9781589069121
Keywords: financial liberalization, financial sector, reserve requirements, interest rate controls, financial reforms
This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an ind...
Book Summary: China and India—Learning from Each Other: Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth »
Source: IMF Research Bulletin, March 2007
Volume/Issue: 8/1
Series: IMF Research Bulletin
Author(s): Antonio Spilimbergo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
ISBN: 9781451929768
Keywords: macroeconomic volatility, financial integration, international monetary fund, Financial Flows, Financial Liberalization, International Economic Integration, Macroeconomics, Welfare Effects,
Research summaries on (1) globalization and macroeconomic volatility (by M. Ayhan Kose), and (2) international financial integration and domestic financial systems (by Thierry Tressel); country study on Germany (by...
Causes of Asset Shortages in Emerging Markets »
Source: Causes of Asset Shortages in Emerging Markets
Volume/Issue: 2011/114
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Jiaqian Chen , and Patrick Imam
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2011
ISBN: 9781455262373
Keywords: Asset Shortage, Emerging Market, Capital Market, Regulation, financial assets, interest rates, capital markets, capital account, pension funds, Money and Interest Rates: General
We first illustrate that emerging markets (EMs) face a shortage of financial assets, with financial assets not growing as rapidly as domestic savings. We then estimate the asset shortage in EMs for 1995-2008. We de...
Centripetal Forces in China’s Economic Takeoff »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 49, No. 3
Volume: 49
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589061224
Keywords: money demand, banking crises, exchange rate, interest rates, international monetary fund
This paper empirically investigates the monetary impact of banking crises in Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and Uruguay during 1975-98. Cointegration analysis and error correction modeling are us...
The Changing Role of the State in the Economy »
Source: The Changing Role of the State in the Economy : A Historical Perspective
Volume/Issue: 1997/114
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Vito Tanzi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1997
ISBN: 9781451943450
Keywords: public sector, industrial countries, public spending, public finance, public interest
This paper discusses the role of the state from a historical perspective. It outlines how that role has changed over the past hundred years and discusses the forces that have promoted the changes. In the period bet...
Chapter 19 A Final Word: Views of the Sovereigns »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
A. Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund: Looking Forward Aaron Brown and Rod Matheson Under the constitution in Canada, all natural resources belong to and ar...
Chapter 15 A Market View of the Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on Global Financial Markets »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
After having been the center of attention through most of 2007 and the first half of 2008, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) returned to relative obscurity once the commodity price bubble burst in mid-2008. Whil...
Chapter 1 Demystifying Sovereign Wealth Funds »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have grown rapidly in recent years in both number and assets, emerging as significant and sometimes controversial players in global capital markets. Before 2000, almost two doze...
Chapter 14. Distributional Consequences and Policy Responses to Food Price Inflation in Developing Asia »
Source: Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): Rabah Arezki , Catherine Pattillo , Marc Quintyn , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
ISBN: 9781616353797
Keywords: hedging, fiscal policy, inflation, terms of trade, food prices
Introduction Rapidly rising food prices are not just a macroeconomic problem. By directly influencing poverty levels, they create a political challenge for developing countries. As t...