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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...

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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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Transactions Costs and Vehicle Currencies

International Monetary Fund - 1989

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Trade Policy and Macroeconomic Balance in the World Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper explores the relationship between trade policy and current accounts. The effect on the current account of a change in protection at home and then abroad is analyzed, assuming that the exchange rate floats. The “savings-and-investment approach” is used. It shows that there is no...

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International Spillovers of Taxiation

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on...

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Reserve Requirements and Monetary Management : An Introduction

International Monetary Fund - 1993

Reserve requirements are widely used by central banks as a means to improve monetary control, an instrument for policy implementation, a source of revenue, and a safeguard of bank liquidity. The effectiveness of reserve requirements in fulfilling these functions is reviewed, and the detailed...

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Exchange Rate Movements and International Interdependence of Stock Markets

International Monetary Fund - 1989

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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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