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Overcoming the Obstacles »
Source: Finance & Development, December 2003
Volume/Issue: 40/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 2003
ISBN: 9781451952018
Keywords: country inequality, infant mortality, mortality rate, life expectancy, world inequality
This paper describes why the international community needs to act now to stand a chance of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The paper gives example of Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the w...
Sources of Economic Growth in East Asia: A Nonparametric Assessment »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 2
Volume: 50
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): Robert Flood
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 July 2003
ISBN: 9781589062023
Keywords: tfp, production function, aggregate production function, standard errors, constant returns
This paper examines sources of economic growth in East Asia. The conventional growth-accounting approach to estimating the sources of economic growth requires unrealistically strong assumptions about either competi...
De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China »
Source: De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China
Volume/Issue: 2012/75
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ashvin Ahuja
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
ISBN: 9781475502275
Keywords: Aggregate Productivity, monopoly, tfp, gdp per capita, competitive equilibrium, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Growth And Aggregate Productivity,
During the past decade, the average Chinese earns roughly 9 times less and is 10 times less productive than the average American at purchasing power parity. Current consensus attributes large differences in output...
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...
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...
Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? The Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows »
Source: Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? The Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows
Volume/Issue: 2008/167
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Nadeem Ilahi , and Riham Shendy
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2008
ISBN: 9781451870251
Keywords: Business cycle, growth linkages, North, South, GCC, regional linkage, decoupling, divergence, convergence, remittance
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate t...
Inequality, Poverty, and Growth »
Source: Inequality, Poverty, and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence
Volume/Issue: 2005/28
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Garbis Iradian
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2005
ISBN: 9781451860474
Keywords: Inequality, growth, public expenditure, per capita income, economic growth, gini index, real gdp, gdp growth, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General, Financial Institutions and Services: General
This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on...
Debt and Growth: Is There a Magic Threshold?1 »
Source: Debt and Growth : Is There a Magic Threshold?
Volume/Issue: 2014/34
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Andrea Pescatori , Damiano Sandri , and John Simon
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 February 2014
ISBN: 9781484306444
Keywords: growth, gdp growth, debt thresholds, debt ratio, growth rate, General,
Using a novel empirical approach and an extensive dataset developed by the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, we find no evidence of any particular debt threshold above which medium-term growth prospects are dra...
Global Business Cycles »
Source: Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?
Volume/Issue: 2008/143
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ayhan Kose , Eswar Prasad , and Christopher Otrok
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2008
ISBN: 9781451870015
Keywords: macroeconomic fluctuations, convergence, decoupling, business cycle, globalization period, business cycle fluctuations,
This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups-industrial countries, emerging markets,...
Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations »
Source: Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations
Volume/Issue: 2007/16
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Gouranga Gopal Das
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2007
ISBN: 9781451865806
Keywords: Inequality, Spillover, Institution, Gini Coefficient, Skill Cohorts, Growth, tfp, economic growth, global trade, trade openness
Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmis...