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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402766
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408616
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Private Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1989
Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396368
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Savings, Investment, and Growth in Mexico : Five Years After the Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 1989
among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396459
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Saving, Investment, Financial Integration, and the Balance of Payments
International Monetary Fund - 1989
closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing constraints on international capital flows, this movement makes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395900
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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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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?
International Monetary Fund - 2004
Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401435
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The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda : Decisive Action, Durable Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Full text also available in: Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. The global economy is expanding moderately but the outlook has weakened further since October, and risks have increased. The global economy has been impaired from growth that has been too slow for too long, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408620
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Roads to Nowhere : How Corruption in Public investment Hurts Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1998
In some countries, corrupt politicians appear to choose investment projects based on the opportunity for bribes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409386