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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Trade Balance in Developing Countries »
Source: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Trade Balance in Developing Countries
Volume/Issue: 2008/14
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yi Wu , and Li Zeng
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2008
ISBN: 9781451868760
Keywords: trade balance, impact of trade, impact of trade liberalization, terms of trade,
Using two recently constructed measures of trade liberalization dates, this research studies the impact of trade liberalization on imports, exports, and overall trade balance for a large sample of developing countr...
Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy »
Source: Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy : Experiences and Guidelines
Volume/Issue: 1997/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Katherine Baer , and Carlos Silvani
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 1997
ISBN: 9781451980394
Keywords: tax administration, tax system, tax administration reform, tax collection, tax administrations
Building on previous FAD work in the tax administration field, this paper defines broad criteria for diagnosing the problems in a country’s tax administration and formulating an appropriate reform strategy....
Can the Neoclassical Model Explain the Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment Across Developing Countries? »
Source: Can the Neoclassical Model Explain the Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment Across Developing Countries?
Volume/Issue: 1998/139
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Harm Zebregs
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1998
ISBN: 9781451929607
Keywords: Foreign Investment, Neoclassical Theory, fdi, marginal products, marginal product, foreign capital, direct investment
Since the beginning of the 1990s, foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has increased dramatically. The distribution of FDI flows across these countries, however, is highly uneven; only a small nu...
7 Trade Elasticities and the Exchange Rate »
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
Chapters 1 and 2 of this paper discussed the macrobalance approach, which is one method a researcher can use to determine the extent to which a country’s current account balance deviates from it...
6 Import and Export Elasticities »
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
This chapter sets out the details of a methodology that can be used to calculate export supply and import demand elasticities without using econometrics. There is a long tradition in estimating trade elastic...
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Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
Assessments of exchange rate misalignments and external imbalances for low-income countries are challenging because methodologies developed for advanced and emerging economies cannot be automatically applied to poo...