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International Coordination of Economic Policies : Scope, Methods, and Effects

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper discusses the scope, methods, and effects of international coordination of economic policies. In analyzing the scope for and of coordination, the paper addresses the rationale for coordination, barriers to coordination, the range and specificivity of policies to be coordinated, and...

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Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic Policy?

International Monetary Fund - 1999

Over the past decade, global output has grown by more than 3 percent a year and inflation has slowed in most regions. The fruits of this growthhave not been shared equally, however, and income disparities have grownin many countries, developed as well as developing. One of the mostpressing...

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Statement by the Managing Director on the IMF's Crisis Response and Reform Agenda

International Monetary Fund - 2009

Crisis response to date. As the world economy has become engulfed in the worst crisis in many generations, the Fund has …

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The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Spring Meetings 2023 : Safeguard Economic Stability, Support Vulnerable Countries, Sustain Our Future Prosperity

International Monetary Fund - 2023

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 Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Spring Meetings 2022 : The Global Economy Under Stress: Repercussions, Response, and Resilience

International Monetary Fund - 2022

The global policy agenda that follows recalibrates priorities to meet the new reality we are facing. The IMF also continues to adjust to respond to the rapidly evolving needs of our membership. Our flexibility has been evident over the past two years of the COVID crisis: unprecedented emergency...

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Stabilization and Growth in an Open Islamic Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Islam proposes the replacement of an interest-based financial system with one which operates on the basis of risk and profit sharing. Using a general equilibrium model, this paper investigates some open-economy implications of the adoption of Islamic banking for growth and stabilization of the...

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Policy Reform, Shadow Prices, and Market Prices

International Monetary Fund - 1988

How should possible policy reforms and projects be assessed when prices give misleading signals? Revenues and costs at market prices then give distorted measures of social gains and losses and our appraisal should use social opportunity costs, or correctly defined, shadow prices. We show how...

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Consumer Price Index Manual : Theory, 2025

International Monetary Fund - 2025

The Theory publication and the companion on the practice of compiling consumer price indices (CPIs) is jointly … Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Bank. The IMF managed … the update of the Theory publication and the CPI Manual. Drafting of this publication was led by Erwin Diewert with …

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Monetary Policy Strategies

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal...

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Commodity Markets and the International Transmission of Fiscal Shocks

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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