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This Selected Issues paper assesses the impact of Vietnam’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. It describes the main terms of Vietnam’s accession as regards trade in goods and services, and uses a partial equilibrium simulation model to estimate the likely impact of WTO...
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This note is on Korea’s transition to a knowledge-based economy, the prospects and challenges ahead, and the development of its financial sector. Assessment of recent government initiatives to develop capital markets has been presented. The note discusses restrictions on Chaebol ownership...
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that the global financial crisis, which began to affect the economy of San Marino in the second half of 2008, is likely to continue to do so in 2009–10. Short-term vulnerabilities in the financial sector have risen owing to exposure of the...
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The paper identifies France’s structural reforms that would yield the largest competitiveness gains based on macro-empirical evidence, and reviews signs of potential gains from a deregulation of the services sector. It is expected that completing deregulation in the services sector would...
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One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China's WTO accession for India's trade, using both econometrics and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes Pakistan's tax reform and revenue performance. The paper assesses the nature and … magnitude of Pakistan's actual twin debt problem in a historical context, and reviews the policy options. The study highlights … regard to the linkages between performance and the structure of exports. The paper reviews a survey of poverty in Pakistan …
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This Selected Issues paper on Pakistan reports that fiscal adjustment, supported by official and private inflows and …, vulnerabilities have been greatly reduced, and Pakistan’s prospects look favorable. A continuation of prudent fiscal policies, as …
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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Pakistan looks at the worrisome trend of declining growth from a … growth-accounting point of view. The paper provides considerable evidence that Pakistan’s striking “social gap” in education … a continuation of prudent fiscal policies in Pakistan that would reduce public debt to more sustainable levels …
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. The paper employs three approaches to forecast inflation in Pakistan. A leading indicator model outperforms a univariate …
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This paper develops a model merging the monetary approach to the balance of payments and a neoclassical growth model into a unified framework in which inflation, growth, and the balance of payments are simultaneously determined. The empirical part of the paper presents estimates of the key...
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