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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...
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Aid for Trade-Harnessing Globalization for Economic Development
International Monetary Fund - 2007
Aid for trade can support countries trying to further benefit from the expanding global market place by helping to address poorly performing infrastructure and institutions. Needless to say, good policies also matter: trade liberalization, improving incentives for private investment in trade,...
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Digital Trade for Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; … - International Monetary Fund - 2025
This report explores the opportunities and challenges for developing economies arising from digital trade and discusses the role of international cooperation in tackling these opportunities and challenges. The report considers policy actions in the areas of digital infrastructure, skills,...
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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
International Monetary Fund - 2012
development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …
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Global Monitoring Report 2004 : Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes
International Monetary Fund - 2013
The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium …
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Global monitoring report : 2009: A development emergency
2009
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Global Monitoring Report, 2009 : A Development Emergency
International Monetary Fund - 2009
, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403103
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Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education : A Covariance Structure Model
International Monetary Fund - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399239
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Guinea; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers on Guinea explains medium-term development framework to achieve Millennium Development Goals and fulfill the authorities’ vision of Guinea as an emerging economy in 15 to 25 years, respectful of human rights and gender equality and...
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