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This report looks at Argentina’s current debt, fiscal, and overall economic situation to see if there is justification for concerns that Argentina is facing serious economic problems that could lead to a default on its sovereign debt. The Argentine economy has grown more than 60 percent since...
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Debates over economic policy tend to be enormously confused. It is often the case that even high-level officials and well-known economists seem ignorant of basic accounting identities. This leads them to make claims that literally do not add up. This seems to be especially common in the case of...
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long-term growth failure in most of the world's countries. …
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Researchers have offered several explanations for the decline in unionization. Many emphasize that “globalization” and … unionization is the inevitable response to the twin forces of globalization and technology, then we would expect unionization rates … to follow a similar path in countries subjected to roughly similar levels of globalization and technology. This paper …
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-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries.” An IMF representative presented a response …
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There is widespread concern that the United States and the rest of the world are descending into a round of … protectionism and a trade war reminiscent of what the world experienced in the Great Depression. Such concerns are both overblown … and misplaced. In the short term, the main concern in the United States and rest of the world should be to promote an …
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This paper looks at three countries that have been hard-hit by the world economic recession, and have turned to the IMF …
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advantage of these gains – through a globalization of the country’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. The projections in this …
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This paper finds that 31 of 41 of countries with current International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements have been subjected to pro-cyclical macroeconomic policies that, during the current global recession, would be expected to have exacerbated economic slowdowns.
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This paper examines recent economic data, including the most recent data released the third week of August 2010, in an attempt to evaluate the Venezuelan economy's prospects in the foreseeable future. It finds that the Venezuelan economy, which went into recession in the first quarter of 2009...
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