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International Monetary Fund - 2015

Public investment supports the delivery of key public services, connects citizens and firms to economic opportunities, and can serve as an important catalyst for economic growth. After three decades of decline, public investment has begun to recover as a share of GDP in emerging markets (EMs)...

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Quotas : Data Update and Simulations

International Monetary Fund - 2016

The quota database has been updated by one year through 2014. Overall, the results of the update continue the broad trends observed in previous updates, but the shifts between the main country groups are generally smaller. Using the current quota formula, the calculated quota share of Emerging...

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Quota Formula : Data Update

International Monetary Fund - 2015

The IMF staff has updated individual member country data for the variables used in the quota formula for the period 2001-13. The staff paper also presents updated calculated quota shares based on the current quota formula. The current quota formula includes a GDP variable, which is a blend of...

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Method of Collecting Exchange Rates for the Calculation of the Value of the SDR for the purposes of Rule 0-2(a)

International Monetary Fund - 2016

time by the Fund.1 The current procedures are set out in Decision No. 6709-(80/189) S, as amended by Decision No. 12157 …

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Methodological Note on EBA-Lite

International Monetary Fund - 2016

The Fund has taken important steps to enhance its external sector assessments since the launch of the External Balance Assessment (EBA) methodology and the External Sector Report (ESR) in 2012, which provides a multilaterally consistent assessment of the largest economies' external sector...

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Tax Policy, Leverage and Macroeconomic Stability

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Risks to macroeconomic stability posed by excessive private leverage are significantly amplified by tax distortions. 'Debt bias' (tax provisions favoring finance by debt rather than equity) has increased leverage in both the household and corporate sectors, and is now widely recognized as a...

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General Arrangements to Borrow

International Monetary Fund - 2017

General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB) on a possible renewal of the GAB decision. By way of background, the GAB was established … Box 1). The GAB decision stipulates that the arrangements are subject to periodic renewal, and that decisions on renewal … need to adopt a decision on renewal not later than twelve months before the end of the current period, id est, not later …

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Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic Policy?

International Monetary Fund - 1999

Over the past decade, global output has grown by more than 3 percent a year and inflation has slowed in most regions. The fruits of this growthhave not been shared equally, however, and income disparities have grownin many countries, developed as well as developing. One of the mostpressing...

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Alternative Quota Formulas : Considerations

International Monetary Fund - 2002

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Quotas and Voice : Further Considerations

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper takes stock of the progress made in quota discussions to date, and examines options for adjustments in quotas or voting power outside of a general quota increase. Section II reviews the status of recent quota discussions, while Section III presents the results of updating the data...

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