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The Balance of Payments Impact of the Food and Fuel Price Shocks on Low-Income African Countries : A Country-by-Country Assessment

International Monetary Fund - 2008

This note discusses the implications of the price shocks for the balance of payments of low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The response by bilateral donors and multilateral institutions will, in practice, need to be country-specific. To this end, the note identifies a list of 18...

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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies

International Monetary Fund - 2017

Capital flows can deliver substantial benefits for countries, but also have the potential to contribute to a buildup of systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries whose financial and institutional development enables...

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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies

International Monetary Fund - 2017

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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly … trade volatility offset the positive impact of commodity booms; and export diversification of primary commodity abundant …

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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

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Economic Diversification in Oil-Exporting Arab Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2016

volatility. Greater economic diversification would unlock job-creating growth, increase resilience to oil price volatility and …

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Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability : Evidence From Panel Data Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 2009

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation of a new measure of oil rents for a panel of 31 oil-exporting countries during the period 1992 to 2005. We find that an increase in oil rents significantly increases...

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Is fiscal policy procyclical in developing oil-producing countries?

Erbil, Nese - 2011

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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Oil Prices, Financial Stability, and the Use of Countercyclical Macroprudential Policies in the GCC

International Monetary Fund - 2015

Economic and financial developments in the GCC economies are interwoven with oil price movements. GCC economies are highly dependent on oil and gas exports. Oil price upturns lead to higher oil revenues, stronger fiscal and external positions, and higher government spending. This boosts...

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Oil Shocks and External Balances

International Monetary Fund - 2007

This paper studies the effects of demand and supply shocks in the global crude oil market on several measures of countries'' external balance, including the oil and non-oil trade balances, the current account, and changes in net foreign assets (NFA) during 1975-2004. We explicitly take a global...

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