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Bulgaria: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245618
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New Zealand; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the effect of international migration on unemployment in New Zealand. The empirical … results in this paper suggest that net migration inflows give rise to a fall in the unemployment rate. The paper estimates a … system of equations including the unemployment rate, real wage, net migration rate, and labor force participation rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825275
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Pension reform in the Baltics : issues and prospects
Schiff, Jerald (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004664415
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Social Dimensions of the IMF'S Policy Di Alogue
International Monetary Fund - 1995
This pamphlet focuses on the IMF's role in social policy advice. First,the evolution of the IMF's involvement in social issues is traced,and the lessons that can be drawn from this experience, includingpolicy implications, are outlined. This is followed by an elaboration of the social dimensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399249
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Azerbaijan Republic : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper reviews Azerbaijan’s State Program on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development 2003–2005 (SPPRED). The Poverty Reduction Program in Azerbaijan has attracted an extensive and high degree of interest, matching its complexity and scope. The main objective of the SPPRED is to define...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407296
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Mongolia : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund - 2003
The report provides the details of the assessment on Mongolia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. It describes the Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EGPRS), which presents main policy directions of the government with a focus on economic growth acceleration and poverty reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406297
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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor
International Monetary Fund - 1990
In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396380
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Social Security Issues in Developing Countries : The Latin American Experience
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper surveys the major economic, financial, and administrative issues that confront social security systems in Latin America. The larger systems have contributed substantially to public sector financial disequilibria. Expenditures of the younger systems with more limited coverage could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396279
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Bangladesh; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
The Sixth Five Year Plan, as outlined in Bangladesh's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, targets strategic growth and employment. The medium-term macroeconomic framework plan entails the involvement of both the private and public sectors. Human resources development strategy programs reaching out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244942