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This paper shows that the presence of quotas on imported inputs that are based on installed capacity can lead to capacity underutilization in manufacturing industries of developing countries. A replacement of such quotas, by tariffs leads to full capacity utilization under assumptions of both...
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Since 1978 the Chinese economy has grown on average more than 9 percenta year. Per capita income has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years andsome analysts predict that within 20 years the Chinese economy will belarger than that of the United States. This pamphlet analyzes the reasonsfor the...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Kingdom of Lesotho reviews the broad objectives and key institutional features of the Common Monetary Area (CMA) relating to currency arrangements. The CMA Agreement provides for the three small member countries to have access to South African capital and money...
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'Guidelines') to establish the investment objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of the PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR … Trusts (the'Trusts') which are available for investment under the Trusts' instruments. These Guidelines are included in this …
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Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …
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, were further amended on January 12, 2022, by the Executive Board of the IMF. The Guidelines establish the investment … objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of the PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trusts (the "Trusts") which are available … for investment under the Trusts' instruments …
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This paper summarizes the relevant considerations and presents decisions for the establishment of an Investment Account …
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This paper examines the behavior of business fixed investment in the United States in the 1980s. A background … discussion of the long-term behavior of the components of business fixed investment is provided, setting the context for the … empirical analysis. A standard neoclassical model of business fixed investment is specified and estimated, with output and the …
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Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …
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