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Chapter 22. Fiscal Adjustment and Income Inequality in Brazilian States »
Source: Inequality and Fiscal Policy
Series: Books
Author(s): Benedict Clements , Ruud Mooij , Sanjeev Gupta , and Michael Keen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 21 September 2015
ISBN: 9781513567754
Keywords: income, tax, taxes, revenue, health
Introduction This chapter assesses the links between fiscal policy and income inequality in Brazil for the period 1995–2011 by combining fiscal data with household survey information...
Session 3: Debt in Emerging Economies - Public Debt, Fiscal Solvency, and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico* »
Source: Dollars, Debt, and Deficits : Sixty Years After Bretton Woods
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589064539
Keywords: Deficit financing, Budget deficits, exchange rate, public debt, foreign assets, current account, foreign liabilities
Introduction The ratios of public debt to GDP have been rising steadily in the economies of Latin America. Comparing averages for the period 1996-2002 with those for the period 1990-...
Dollars, Debt, and Deficits : Sixty Years After Bretton Woods »
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589064539.072
ISBN: 9781589064539
Keywords: Deficit financing, Budget deficits, exchange rate, public debt, foreign assets, current account, foreign liabilities
This book examines the challenges facing the international monetary and financial system, as well as the future role of the Bretton Woods institutions in addressing those challenges. The volume is based on the proc...
Inequality and Fiscal Policy »
Series: Books
Author(s): Benedict Clements , Ruud Mooij , Sanjeev Gupta , and Michael Keen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 21 September 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513567754.071
ISBN: 9781513567754
Keywords: income, tax, taxes, revenue, health
The sizeable increase in income inequality experienced in advanced economies and many parts of the world since the 1990s and the severe consequences of the global economic and financial crisis have brought distribu...
Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate »
Source: Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate
Volume/Issue: 2012/52
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Santanu Chatterjee , and Azer Mursagulov
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2012
ISBN: 9781463937133
Keywords: real exchange rate, intersectoral adjustment costs, exchange rate, government spending, government spending shocks, Macroeconomic Aspects Of International Trade And Finance, National Government Expenditures And Related Policies,
Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the rea...
Are Business Cycles Different in Asia and Latin America? »
Source: Are Business Cycles Different in Asia and Latin America?
Volume/Issue: 1997/9
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Alexander Hoffmaister , and Jorge Roldos
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1997
ISBN: 9781451927313
Keywords: exchange rate, real exchange rate, terms of trade, exchange rate fluctuations, nominal exchange rate
This paper compares business cycles in Asia and in Latin America using structural vector autoregression analysis with panel data. The evidence for countries in these regions suggests that (i) the main source of out...
Financial Crisis, US Unconventional Monetary Policy and International Spillovers1 »
Source: Financial Crisis, US Unconventional Monetary Policy and International Spillovers
Volume/Issue: 2015/85
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Qianying Chen , Andrew Filardo , Dong He , and Feng Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 April 2015
ISBN: 9781475520668
Keywords: emerging economies, global VAR, international monetary policy spillovers, quantitative easing, unconventional monetary policy, federal reserve, securities, reserve, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy, Monetary Policy (Targets
We study the impact of the US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error-correction model (GVECM) and conducting counterfactual analyses. We focus on the...
Sustaining Latin America's Resurgence »
Source: Sustaining Latin America's Resurgence : Some Historical Perspectives
Volume/Issue: 2006/252
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Anoop Singh , and Martin Cerisola
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 2006
ISBN: 9781451865127
Keywords: Macroeconomic Policy, Policy Design and Consistency, Economic Growth, Open Economies, fiscal policy, exchange rate, exchange rate regimes, discretionary fiscal policy, exchange rates, Prices
This paper looks at the historical lessons that might serve to entrech Latin America's newly resurgent growth phase. It briefly reviews the post-World War II experiences in Latin America and Asia, focusing on the c...
Fiscal Stimulus and Credibility in Emerging Countries »
Source: Fiscal Stimulus and Credibility in Emerging Countries
Volume/Issue: 2010/123
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Magda Kandil , and Hanan Morsy
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 May 2010
ISBN: 9781455200825
Keywords: credibility, effectiveness, cyclicality, fiscal impulse, exchange rate, fiscal expansion, Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General, Open Economy Macroeconomics,
Across a sample of thirty four emerging countries, the evidence shows the frequent existence of a pro-cyclical fiscal impulse. However, the scope for countercyclical policy increases with the availability of intern...
International Evidence on Recovery from Recessions »
Source: International Evidence on Recovery from Recessions
Volume/Issue: 2009/183
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Valerie Cerra , Sweta Saxena , and Ugo Panizza
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2009
ISBN: 9781451873306
Keywords: Growth, Recession, Rebound, Output loss, exchange rate, recessions, exchange rate regime,
Although negative shocks have persistent effects on output on average, this paper shows that macroeconomic policies and the structure of the economy can influence the speed of recovery and mitigate the persistence...