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This paper reviews the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for the Union of the Comoros. The authorities’ program for 2005 is focused on macroeconomic stabilization. This is predicated on a consolidated budget entailing a domestic fiscal adjustment slightly above 3 percent of GDP. Monetary policy...
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The paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of different systems of industrial relations. After reviewing the relevant literature, and analyzing cross-country evidence, the paper focuses on the experience of centralized bargaining characterizing Spain in the period 1979-86. The paper...
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The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the … in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP …) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the …
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The paper presents Canada’s report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF …) recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Canada has strengthened its overall …
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The spillovers from the U.S. economy to Canada have been assessed. It uses structural vector autoregressions to analyze … the role of financial linkages in real and financial spillovers from the United States to Canada. The implications of … Canada’s predictable price level have been analyzed. Innovative small and medium-size enterprises have significantly greater …
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slowdown in large part has reflected the slowing in the United States economy, which has reduced growth in Canada’s exports and …
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This paper documents two aspects of Canada’s regional diversity and compares the results with those across U.S. regions … the reduction in macroeconomic volatility in Canada after the introduction of inflation targeting is largely attributable …
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This Selected Issues paper assesses the long-term fiscal position of Canada. Simulations based on current tax and …
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put in place during the decade. The Bank of Canada raised interest rates markedly in 2000 as estimates of slack in the … reflect economic conditions in Canada and should aim to allow the economy to seek its productive potential without …
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Between 1980 and 1995, labor productivity in the business sector grew at an average annual rate in Canada, which was … to labor productivity growth has been more modest in Canada than in the United States …
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