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This book includes 21 case studies of technical assistance provided by the IMF's former Monetary and Financial Systems Department during 2003-06. These studies cover issues related to monetary policy and operations, financial markets, payment systems, and financial regulation and supervision,...
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This paper presents the first set of Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) borrowing agreements that have been signed to respond to the unprecedented demand for concessional financing during the COVID-19 pandemic. A fast-track loan mobilization round has been instrumental to allow the Fund...
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Central government wage expenditures accounted for 7 percent of GDP in 99 countries during 1980-90 (unweighted average). Regression analysis indicates that federations, countries with high populations and high per capita incomes, heavily indebted countries, and small low-income economies tend to...
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A central bank must decide on the frequency with which it will conduct open market operations and the variability in … an immediate target and broadcasting the central bank’s intentions against the informational advantages to the central … bank of allowing the free play of market forces to reveal more of the information available to market participants …
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This study takes stock of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America since the early 1990s. It argues that strengthening the legal independence of central banks, together with macroeconomic policies, was instrumental in reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the...
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and on the scope for policy signaling by the central bank …
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monetary instruments, discusses the role of the market and of the central bank, and takes a brief, practical look at howopen …
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Standards and Codes for the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). The report reveals that with respect to the prerequisites of …
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, the Central Bank of Cyprus issued bank guidelines on the management of market risk that include provisions on scenario …
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