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Boom, Bust, and Road to Recovery
Brazil is at crossroads, emerging slowly from a historic recession that was preceded by a huge economic boom.
The Future of China's Bond Market
This book analyzes segments of China's bond market, from sovereign, policy bank, and credit bonds, to the rapidly growing local government bond market.
5. A Comparative Analysis of Financial Sector Health in the United States, Europe, and Asia »
Source: Progress and Confusion : The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Series: Books
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 29 April 2016
ISBN: 9780262034623
Keywords: Economic policy, Financial stability, Financial risk, Exchange rate management, Capital flows, Macroprudential Policy, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Financial Crises, Macroeconomics; capital flows;
This chapter uses recent methodology for estimating capital shortfalls of financial institutions during aggregated stress to assess the evolution of financial sector health since 2007 in the United States, E...
6 A Comparative Perspective on Expenditure Assignments »
Source: Reforming China's Public Finances
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 September 1995
ISBN: 9781557755117
Keywords: expenditure, expenditures, taxation, budget law, tax system
Principles Expenditure assignments influence the effective provision of certain services, as well as macroeconomic policy, but have important distributional implicati...
6. Accelerating the External and Internal Opening Up of China’s Securities Industry »
Source: China and India Learning from Each Other : Reforms and Policies for Sustained Growth
Series: Books
Author(s): Eswar Prasad , Steven Dunaway , and Jahangir Aziz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2006
ISBN: 9781589065192
Keywords: inflation, exchange rate, banking, capital markets, financial system
Xinghai Fang, Ti Liu, and Donghui Shi ⋆ Now we have set the economic development objectives. But how are we going to achi...
Accounting for Reserves1 »
Source: Accounting for Reserves
Volume/Issue: 2012/302
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Tamim Bayoumi , and Christian Saborowski
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 21 December 2012
ISBN: 9781475535761
Keywords: Reserve accumulation, current account, capital account, current accounts, capital account liberalization, General,
Views on the effectiveness of sterilized reserve intervention vary. Sterilized intervention is generally seen as ineffective in advanced countries while persistent intervention by some emerging markets is often cit...
Activation of a Modern Industry »
Source: Activation of a Modern Industry
Volume/Issue: 2002/15
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Danyang Xie , and Ping Wang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2002
ISBN: 9781451843279
Keywords: industrial transformation, subsistence, skilled labor, unemployment, skilled workers, employment, unemployment rate
This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements, industry-wide...
Adding China to the Global Projection Model1 »
Source: Adding China to the Global Projection Model
Volume/Issue: 2013/256
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Patrick Blagrave , Peter Elliott , Roberto Garcia-Saltos , Douglas Hostland , Douglas Laxton , and Fan Zhang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 December 2013
ISBN: 9781484317631
Keywords: Global Macroeconomic Model, inflation target, real interest rate, General, Global Outlook, General,
We extend the Global Projection Model (GPM) to include a separate block for China. China plays an important role in shaping global economic outcomes, given its sheer size and trade integration with other key econom...
8 Adjustment and Economic Growth »
Source: Fifty Years After Bretton Woods : The Future of the IMF and the World Bank: Proceedings of a Conference held in Madrid, Spain, September 29-30, 1994
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 April 1995
ISBN: 9781557754875
Keywords: exchange rate, exchange rates, structural adjustment, world economy, adjustment programs
Tony Killick Good Policies, Weak Results I start with a paradox: the thrust of the policies favored by the Bretton Woods institutions has had demonstra...
Africa in the Doha Round »
Source: Africa in the Doha Round : Dealing with Preference Erosion and Beyond
Volume/Issue: 2005/8
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s): Yongzheng Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 2005
ISBN: 9781451975796
Keywords: Africa, Multilateral trade negotiations, World Trade Organization, Doha Round, preference erosion, special and differential treatment, market access, export markets, tariff cuts, trade barriers,
Improving market access in industrial countries and retaining preferences have been Africa's two key objectives in the Doha Round trade negotiations. This paper argues that African negotiators may have overlooked t...
Africa’s Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade? »
Source: Africa's Rising Exposure to China : How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
Volume/Issue: 2013/250
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Paulo Drummond , and Estelle Liu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 December 2013
ISBN: 9781484311318
Keywords: spillover, panel data, econometrics, export growth, exporters, oil exporters, total exports, General,
The rapid growth in China's domestic investment in recent decades has generated a large appetite for global goods, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of changes in China's inve...
After the Boom–Commodity Prices and Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean »
Source: After the Boom-Commodity Prices and Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Volume/Issue: 2014/154
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Bertrand Gruss
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 August 2014
ISBN: 9781498363518
Keywords: Global VAR (GVAR), commodity prices, output growth, Latin America, commodity exporters, exporters, commodity exports, Time-Series Models, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Economic Growth of Open Economies
After skyrocketing over the past decade, commodity prices have remained stable or eased somewhat since mid-2011-and most projections suggest they are not likely to resume the upward trend observed in the last decad...