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A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1991
The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical...
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Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Low-income countries (LICs) face significant challenges in meeting their development objectives while maintaining a sustainable debt position. The international community's main answer to this dilemma has been to promote recourse to concessional external resources. The Fund's recommendations to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410137
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Finance & Development, March 2013
International Monetary Fund - 2013
Two years ago, citizens in the Arab world—fired by their ideals and visions of a better life—ignited a social movement that inspired people around the globe. In Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen—the so-called Arab countries in transition—people embraced change, ushering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395399
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Finance & Development, December 2012
International Monetary Fund - 2012
By combating malaria with mosquito nets or building schools and providing basic sanitation, philanthropy is helping transform the developing world. Rich donors are devoting fortunes—many of them earned through computer software, entertainment, and venture capitalism— to defeating poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395575
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Private Investment in Developing Countries : An Empirical Analysis
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper analyzes the effects of several policy and other macro-economic variables on the ratio of private investment … econometric evidence indicates that the rate of private investment is positively related to the real growth rate of GDP, public … sector investment, and to a lesser extent the level of per capita GDP, while it is negatively related to domestic inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395767
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Private Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1989
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396368
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Private Market Financing for Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1991
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Private Market Financing for Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1995
This study surveys recent trends in private market financing for developing countries. In addition to examining developments in flows to developing countries through banking and securites markets, it analyzes the institutional and regulatory framework for developing country finance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399282
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Finance and Development, September 2021
International Monetary Fund - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410833
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Financial Crisis in Developing Countries and Structural Weaknesses of the Financial System
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper examines the generation of financial crises in developing economies and shows that the microeconomic structure of the financial sector is a crucial factor in creating the conditions for a crisis. Structural problems of the financial system in developing countries, including implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396313