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Options for Low Income Countries Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : A Report to the G-20 Development Working Group by the IMF, OECD, UN and World Bank
International Monetary Fund - 2015
Experience shows that there is often ample room for more effective and efficient use of investment tax incentives in low-income countries. Tax incentives generally rank low in investment climate surveys in low-income countries, and there are many examples in which they are reported to be...
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Budget Institutions in G-20 Countries : Country Evaluations
International Monetary Fund - 2014
The central government publishes comprehensive financial statements, which include the social security funds and balance sheets with all financial assets and liabilities. Audited financial statements are published more than nine months after the end of the fiscal year. The 2004 Fiscal...
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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
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World Economic and Financial Surveys : Issues & Development in intl. Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1992
This paper reviews major issues and developments in the trade area and outlines the challenges governments face as they seek to liberalize trade in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and address new trade issues. In industrial countries, the reorientation of policies was most apparent in...
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World Economic and Financial Surveys : Development in International Exchange and Trade Systems
International Monetary Fund - 1989
can be conveyed by the degree that world trade is affected by countries adopting different arrangements …
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Trade Policy and Macroeconomic Balance in the World Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper explores the relationship between trade policy and current accounts. The effect on the current account of a change in protection at home and then abroad is analyzed, assuming that the exchange rate floats. The “savings-and-investment approach” is used. It shows that there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396105
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External Sector Report, July 2018 : Tackling Global Imbalances amid Rising Trade Tensions
International Monetary Fund - 2018
, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408937
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
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