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Food prices, nutrition, and the millenium development goals

2012

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Global Monitoring Report : Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper reviews economic developments in Barbados during the 1990s. Economic activity declined during 1990-92 but began to recover in 1993. The recovery started slowly in 1993, but picked up in 1994, and real GDP grew by 3.8 percent in that year. Adverse weather in 1994 led to a drop in sugar...

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Cape Verde; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: First Annual Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

development challenges and curb poverty and unemployment. It reviews the agenda of structural reforms and also lists the sectoral …

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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...

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Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation...

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Advancing the frontiers of monetary policy

Adrian, Tobias (ed.); Laxton, Douglas (ed.); … - 2018

Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including …Part I. The frontiers of monetary policymaking. 1. An overview of inflation-forecast targeting -- Part II. Principles … and practices of inflation-forecast targeting. 2. First principles -- 3. Managing expectations -- 4. Nuts and bolts of a …

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Staff Studies for the World Econ Outlook

International Monetary Fund - 1987

This paper reviews the long-term growth performance of the major industrial countries and discusses some of the many factors that have been identified as possible sources of the marked slowdown in growth since the early 1970s. According to the view of different demographic developments across...

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Pension Reform in Belgium

International Monetary Fund - 1996

This paper reviews the financial implications of aging for the pension system in Belgium during 1995-2050. Our simulations indicate a strong rise in pension expenditure over the next half century, as is the case in other industrialized countries. In Belgium, the problem is particularly acute in...

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The Gambia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paperâ€”Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) describes The Gambiaâ€™s macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, external financing needs, and major sources of financing. Since PRSP I had experienced some setbacks during its implementation,...

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Albania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This paper examines the Progress Report for Albaniaâ€™s National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development (NSSED). 2002 was the first year of implementing the NSSED. The implementation process has been oriented toward achieving the annual objectives and in accordance with the program of...

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