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internationally. The Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade sets out a conceptual and measurement framework for digital trade that aligns …
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This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and … of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the … analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on income, consumption, and international borrowing. A simulation …
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constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic …. After falling by 5½ percent in 2009, real GDP has grown at a low rate, and by 2012 real GDP was still 3 percent short of …
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surplus as a proportion of GDP and the ratio of government consumption to GDP—are important determinants of private savings … rates in the industrial countries in the post-World War II period …
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This paper presents a detailed analysis of the output decline in Kazakhstan in the early years of the transition. The decline is documented at the aggregate and sectoral levels, and the quality of the available data is reviewed. A growth accounting framework quantifies the productivity slowdown...
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The output contractions during the initial transition stages in the Baltics and in Russia and the other CIS countries are examined across several dimensions, and the reliability of the available official statistics evaluated. The depth, length and breadth of the contractions are studied and set...
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This paper examines some factors that may have accounted for the investment and growth performance of Ghana during the past two decades, with special emphasis on the economic recovery program (ERP) period. The paper highlights that Ghana’s growth performance responded well to the...
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This paper employs several econometric techniques to estimate the Armenian output gap. The findings indicate that the output gap is significantly positive in 2007 and 2008 and decreased dramatically in 2009. The paper uses these results to estimate a New Keynesian Phillips curve for Armenia,...
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The methodology used in this paper has three distinguishing features: the natural rate of unemployment and potential output are jointly estimated; estimation integrates wage and price data with “real” and structural data; and third, the methodology encompasses many of the methods found in the...
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This paper evaluates the growing literature on whether devaluation has contractionary effects on output in developing countries. It explores the nature of the links between the exchange rate and real output within a unified, fairly general analytical framework which incorporates a number of the...
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