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The global economy is at another highly uncertain moment: tentative signs of stabilization earlier this year have receded, and the outlook is increasingly risky and uncertain. At the same time, divisions within and across countries are deepening, exacerbated by rising fragmentation. Strong...
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The Central African Republic (C.A.R.) remains at high risk of external debt distress and overall high risk of debt distress under the revised Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF), unchanged from the 2018 DSA. Solvency indicators (the present values of the external public and publicly guaranteed...
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This paper examines the World Economic Outlook forecasting record for the principal performance indicators for the … developments in policy variables and oil prices. In judging the forecast performance of the World Economic Outlook, a number of … points must be kept in mind. Most important, it has to be recognized that the period since the inception of the World …
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This paper discusses commodity prices might serve as a useful leading indicator of inflation, based on the relative importance of flexible auction markets for the determination of these prices. They thus may have a tendency to respond relatively quickly, especially in response to monetary...
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This paper describes the functioning of labor markets and to eliminate other structural obstacles to noninflationary growth. The decline in the price level in the home country will involve a rise in the real money supply and, if output is sluggish, this will result in an excess supply of money....
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The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff … economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world …
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Recent indicators suggest that activity in the world economy is strengthening more rapidly than projected by the staff …
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This paper presents an outlook for the world economy for 1997–98. With world output expected to expand by some 41 …
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high level of investment activity, an increase in the volume of world trade, and an environment of relatively stable prices …
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This chapter provides various IMF staff's concluding remarks of completion of Article IV Consultation with different countries. The IMF holds bilateral consultations under Article IV of its Articles of Agreement with all its member countries, in most cases every year. As part of these...
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