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The GCC growth model has delivered substantial improvements in living standards over several decades. Access to foreign labor has supported rapid growth in the non-oil sector and price stability in the region. It has also resulted in positive spillovers to the migrant-sending countries through...
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The paper examines labor market developments in the four hard-peg European Union (EU) accession candidates during transition, with a view toward understanding the persistent high unemployment experienced in each country. Despite the significant levels of unemployment in all four countries, labor...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance, and argues that a number of factors—poor worker-job matching, a compressed wage structure, and low geographical mobility—contribute to economic disparities. The paper...
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In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...
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This assessment is focused on the Superintendencia de Seguros de la Nacion (SSN) in Argentina. SSN has responsibility …
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This assessment finds that Argentina has made significant progress to improve its securities regulatory system within … the existing legal framework. Specifically, Argentina operates a highly, even uniquely, transparent securities regulatory … regulation was conducted between May 11 and May 26, 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and includes references to certain post on …
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The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) and the Superintendence of Financial Entities (SEFyC) are to be commended on their …). This assessment of the state of compliance with the Basel Core Principles (BCPs) in Argentina has been undertaken as part …
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Management has received a request from the Argentine authorities to publish documents on economic developments in the country prepared by Fund staff for informal Board briefings in 2013-15. The Argentine authorities see publication of these papers as part of their commitment to transparency and...
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This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Argentina’s economy has rebounded strongly from the financial crisis …
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We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on …
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