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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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This paper reviews major issues and developments in the trade area and outlines the challenges governments face as they seek to liberalize trade in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and address new trade issues. In industrial countries, the reorientation of policies was most apparent in...
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As a companion piece to the Board paper on Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance: Initial Considerations for the Fund, this paper presents a selection of case studies on the structural reform experiences of member countries. These papers update the Board on work since the Triennial...
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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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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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progressive integration of markets and the related globalization of investor and borrower behavior. Buoyant activity in … 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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