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implementation of the infrastructure investment program, higher domestic saving, and structural reforms. … dividend of a rapidly expanding labor force is fading and further structural declines in unemployment are likely to be limited …
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This staff report on Saudi Arabia’s 2013 Article IV Consultation discusses economic policies and development. As the largest crude oil exporter, and the only producer with significant spare capacity, Saudi Arabia plays a systemic and stabilizing role in the global oil market. In 2011,...
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encouraging accelerated bank lending for domestic investment. The public sector has been kept on a fiscally sustainable course. In …
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evidence that fiscal policy has been procyclical and has hence exacerbated the fluctuations in economic activity. In addition …
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Canada’s macroeconomic and policy performance has continued to outshine most other industrial countries, and its outlook remains favorable. The new government has pledged to maintain the strong social consensus in favor of fiscal surpluses, while aiming at enhancing incentives. The new...
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This paper examines the extent of international financial integration, and its consequences for the current account. The evidence indicates that financial liberalization in the 1970s and 1980s has resulted in a substantial movement towards closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing...
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This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …
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This paper reviews the literature on factors which affect saving and capital formation in industrialized countries …. Problems of measurement are briefly examined. Evidence of the effect on the rate of saving of real rates of return, income … redistribution, allocation of saving between corporations and individuals, growth of public and private pension plans, tax incentives …
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …
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