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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424793
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The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals : Principles, Problems and Practice
International Monetary Fund - 2010
There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high-and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel-as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397213
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Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices in Neoclassical Model
International Monetary Fund - 1988
and world commodity supplies and the real exchange rate and real commodity prices. It is shown that fiscal expansion and … increasing world commodity supplies simultaneously lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and a decline in relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396210
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Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic Policy?
International Monetary Fund - 1999
Over the past decade, global output has grown by more than 3 percent a year and inflation has slowed in most regions. The fruits of this growthhave not been shared equally, however, and income disparities have grownin many countries, developed as well as developing. One of the mostpressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409385
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Indonesia: selected issues
Adler, Gustavo; Li, Xianming; Ramakrishnan, Uma; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504203
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Macroeconomic and Sectoral Effects of Terms-Of-Trade Shocks : The Experience of the Oil-Exporting Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper investigates the impact of long-run terms-of-trade shocks. Analytically, we show that, if capital goods are largely importable or the labor supply is sufficiently elastic, then natural-resource booms increase aggregate investment and worsen the current account, but Dutch ‘Disease’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400547
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When and Why Worry About Real Exchange Rate Appreciation? : The Missing Link Between Dutch Disease and Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2010
We review the literature on Dutch disease, and document that shocks that trigger foreign exchange inflows (such as natural resource booms, surges in foreign aid, remittances, or capital inflows) appreciate the real exchange rate, generate factor reallocation, and reduce manufacturing output and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403243
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World Economic Outlook, October 1998 : Financial Turbulence in the World Economy A Survey by the Staff of the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 1998
The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff … economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403935
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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1984
increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406218
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Making the Global Economy Work for All (Revised)
International Monetary Fund - 2004
set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy. Through its work, the IMF helps to keep the … world economy running as smoothly as possible. Its work is aimed partly at the prevention of economic and financial crises … countries' economic size, determine countries' voting power in the IMF and the limits to what they can borrow. The IMF and World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397381