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Analysis of the Statistical Systems in the OCTs and recommendations aiming at enhancing Statistical Systems of OCTs : Final Report
Spanneut, Christine - 2011
. Indeed, OCTs have noticed several gaps in their statistical systems as well as a lack of comparability of their statistics …. The Commission is also interested in the improvement of the statistics it uses at the different steps of the project … management cycle. Improvement of statistics would also allow the EU to better assess the effectiveness of its investment. Based …
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Manual on statistics of international trade in services 2010 (MSITS 2010)
2012 - Rev. 1
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Manual on statistics of international trade in services
2002
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50 years of figures on Europe : data 1952 - 2001
2003 - 2003 ed.
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The employment of women in Portugal : report
Silva, Manuela - 1984
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Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects
Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature....
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Global Poverty Estimates; A Sensitivity Analysis
Minoiu, Camelia; Dhongde, Shatakshee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric...
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Kernel Density Estimation Basedon Grouped Data; The Case of Poverty Assessment
Minoiu, Camelia; Reddy, Sanjay - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty estimates, the sign and magnitude of which...
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Concept of offshore Financial Centers; In Search of An Operational Definition
Zoromé, Ahmed - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper proposes a new definition of Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) and develops a statistical method to differentiate between OFCs and non-OFCs using data from the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS), the International Investment Position (IIP), and the balance of payments. The...
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