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CHAPTER 10: Public Health Expenditure Reforms in Canada, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States »
Source: The Economics of Public Health Care Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): David Coady , Benedict Clements , and Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
ISBN: 9781616352448
Keywords: health care, public health, health insurance, public health spending, health spending
This chapter presents country case studies on the public health care expenditures and reform experiences of seven advanced economies. The case studies were designed to highlight spe...
Picture This: Globalization of Labor »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2007
Volume/Issue: 44/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 June 2007
ISBN: 9781451953824
Keywords: international monetary fund, gender, girls, gender equality, gender disparities
The June 2007 issue of F&D spotlights gender equality. The lead article discusses progress toward fulfilling the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on redressing gender discrimination and empowering women and relate...
Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility »
Source: Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility
Volume/Issue: 2002/62
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Robert Flood , and Nancy Marion
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 2002
ISBN: 9781451848298
Keywords: capital mobility, reserve holdings, equation, skewness, central bank, statistics,
Why do countries hold so much international reserves? Global reserve holdings (excluding gold) were equivalent to 17 weeks of imports at the end of 1999. That is almost double what they were at the end of 1960 and...
Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption »
Source: Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption
Volume/Issue: 2000/128
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Antonio Spilimbergo , and Athanasios Vamvakidis
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2000
ISBN: 9781451855043
Keywords: trade forecasting and simulation, reer, equation, equations, statistics, cointegration
The real effective exchange rate is an aggregation of several bilateral real exchange rates with respect to other countries. The aggregation is usually done under the assumption of constant elasticity of substituti...
International Reserves »
Source: International Reserves : Precautionary vs. Mercantilist Views, Theory and Evidence
Volume/Issue: 2005/198
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Joshua Aizenman , and Jaewoo Lee
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2005
ISBN: 9781451862171
Keywords: mercantilist, hoarding, capital account liberalization, financial intermediation, stock of capital, Economic Growth of Open Economies,
This paper compares the importance of precautionary and mercantilist motives in the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries. Overall, empirical results support precautionary motives; in particula...
Capital Flows, Financial Integration, and International Reserve Holdings »
Source: Capital Flows, Financial Integration, and International Reserve Holdings : The Recent Experience of Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies
Volume/Issue: 2007/151
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Sunil Sharma , Woon Choi , and Maria Strömqvist
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2007
ISBN: 9781451867152
Keywords: sovereign liquidity, stockpiling motive, panel data, net capital flows, net capital, capital markets,
This paper examines the interaction between capital flows and international reserve holdings in the context of increasing financial integration. For emerging markets the sensitivity of reserves to net capital flows...
East Asian Growth Before and After the Crisis »
Source: East Asian Growth Before and After the Crisis
Volume/Issue: 1998/137
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): N. Crafts
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1998
ISBN: 9781451855883
Keywords: tfp, economic growth, capital markets, growth rates, real gdp
This paper surveys the literature on the growth performance of the east Asian economies in recent decades, evaluates the sustainability of that performance, and provides a preliminary assessment of their long-term...
Inflation Targeting and the Crisis »
Source: Inflation Targeting and the Crisis : An Empirical Assessment
Volume/Issue: 2010/45
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Irineu de Carvalho Filho
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2010
ISBN: 9781451963045
Keywords: economic crisis, inflation, terms of trade, real interest rates, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General, Business Fluctuations, And Cycles, money And Interest Rates,
This paper appraises how countries with inflation targeting fared during the current crisis, with the goal of establishing the stylized facts that will guide and motivate future research. We find that since August...
Getting Together »
Source: Finance & Development, June 2007
Volume/Issue: 44/2
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 June 2007
ISBN: 9781451953824
Keywords: international monetary fund, gender, girls, gender equality, gender disparities
The June 2007 issue of F&D spotlights gender equality. The lead article discusses progress toward fulfilling the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on redressing gender discrimination and empowering women and relate...
The Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocationon Economic Growth »
Source: The Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocationon Economic Growth
Volume/Issue: 2000/104
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Helene Poirson Ward
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2000
ISBN: 9781451852752
Keywords: Growth, labor reallocation, labor efficiency, labor productivity, labor force, labor share
This study seeks to explain economic growth differences in an aggregate production function framework, where labor reallocation from agriculture to modern sectors influences labor efficiency growth. The econometric...