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This technical note explores the reasons for a comparatively high interest rate spread in Kazakhstan in the context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared with...
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Since 1978 the Chinese economy has grown on average more than 9 percenta year. Per capita income has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years andsome analysts predict that within 20 years the Chinese economy will belarger than that of the United States. This pamphlet analyzes the reasonsfor the...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Kingdom of Lesotho reviews the broad objectives and key institutional features of the Common Monetary Area (CMA) relating to currency arrangements. The CMA Agreement provides for the three small member countries to have access to South African capital and money...
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In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international … the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a ""rest of the world …
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This paper examines some factors that may have accounted for the investment and growth performance of Ghana during the …
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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...
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This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country’s perspective. The framework is one in which …, if the debtor country is unable to meet debt obligations, a bargaining regime determines the amount of debt repayment. In … the context of a two-country real trade model, debt repayment is equal to the trade surplus of the debtor. The outcome of …
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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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the recovery of private investment was the main driving force, as the private sector saved most of its interest income on … public debt. The paper also analyzes some of the costs and benefits associated with trade liberalization. While there is no … stimulating exports and investment …
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