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Corporate priorities, government policies, and public demand are driving companies across the world to improve their environmental and social footprint. In South Africa, the Petco Producer Responsibility Organisation NPC is scaling up the recycling of plastics, while improving livelihoods for...
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The aim of this paper is to address the implications of Global Value Chains (GVCs) for the Fund's surveillance work. The paper first draws on the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to document the dynamics of trade linkages between countries and regions through GVCs and its impact on the real...
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-looking monetary policy decisions. The bias is higher for countries whose monetary policy was more independent of Germany …
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Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is...
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Germany. Germany's focus on actual, rather than cyclically adjusted, fiscal goals and outcomes carries the risk of rendering …
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economic environment and policies. Declining labor shares, wage moderation, and employment performance in Germany and the …
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recovery are balanced but the range of forecasts for 2007 is unusually wide. The priority for Germany is to transmit its …
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For more than a decade, growth in Germany has been subdued and uneven. This paper introduces the stylized facts …
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for Germany. It projects that Germany’s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining … labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term fiscal scenario for Germany based on current policies. The paper also attempts … to construct a preliminary public sector balance sheet for Germany, and analyzes the performance of its nonfinancial …
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