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Evaluation of Technical Assistance to Post-Conflict Countries-Mozambique and Rwanda

International Monetary Fund - 2009

This evaluation of technical assistance (TA) in statistics covers two post-conflict countries, namely, Mozambique and Rwanda during the period 2000-08. The TA, including training, covered the broad spectrum of the Statistics Department's (STA) program, including collaboration with the East...

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

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 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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Sri Lanka; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka reviews several issues that highlight both Sri Lankaâ€™s accomplishments and their policy constraints amidst a protracted period of civil conflict and political instability. High intermediation costs have held back development of the financial sector...

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Iceland: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015

This Selected Issues paper examines implications of capital account liberalization in Iceland. Capital controls were critical in 2008 to avoid a more severe collapse of the Icelandic economy. Six years later, capital inflows have been liberalized, but most outflows remain restricted. Iceland has...

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Euro Area Policies: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This Selected Issues paper assesses the youth unemployment problem in advanced European economies, especially the euro area. Youth unemployment rates increased sharply in the euro area after the crisis. Much of these increases can be explained by output dynamics and the greater sensitivity of...

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Denmark: Systemic Issues in Mortgage Loans and Covered Bond Finance - Technical Note

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This technical note analyzes systemic issues in mortgage loans and covered bond finance in Denmark. Mortgage lending has seen significant product innovation in recent years. Loans with adjustable interest rates and/or interest-only periods, which have been introduced since the late 1990s, had...

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Ghana : Background Information on Output and Investment Performance

International Monetary Fund - 1995

This paper examines some factors that may have accounted for the investment and growth performance of Ghana during the …

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Growth in East Asia : What We Can and What We Cannot infer

International Monetary Fund - 1996

The spectacular growth of many economies in East Asia over the past 30years has impressed the economics profession, which often refers to thesuccess of the so-called Four Tigers of the region (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan Province of China) as ""miraculous."" This papercritically...

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Investment and Growth in the Arab World : A Scoping Note

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …

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Private Investment in Developing Countries : An Empirical Analysis

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy and other macro-economic variables on the ratio of private investment … econometric evidence indicates that the rate of private investment is positively related to the real growth rate of GDP, public … sector investment, and to a lesser extent the level of per capita GDP, while it is negatively related to domestic inflation …

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