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Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education...
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This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author’s framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...
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facilitating the resolution of global imbalances while sustaining robust global growth. China, the euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia …
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This paper examines external adjustment in the U.S., Japan and Germany from the perspective of net foreign asset …
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in the United States and Japan. During the 1980s, these taxes encouraged capital flows to the United States both by …
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São Tomé and Principe’s economy is heavily dependent on the international economy. The study assessed the country's macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction. The implementation of the National poverty reduction strategy (NPRS) through People's...
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This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that following a rather tepid recovery, the United States economy gathered … potential output around midyear. The recovery broadened in early 2004 as payroll employment strengthened, easing concerns that a …
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This Selected Issues paper presents updated IMF staff estimates of potential output growth for the United States, using data through 2001 that incorporates the full cyclical upswing of the 1990s and the subsequent mild recession, as well as taking into account the revisions to the national...
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