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FDI from BRICs to LICs : emerging growth driver?
Mlachila, Montfort - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424879
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New Growth Drivers for Low-Income Countries : The Role of the BRICs
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The emergence of BRICs-Brazil, Russia, India, and China-is reshaping low-income countries' (LICs) international … rapidly over the past decade that BRICs have become new growth drivers for LICs. Trade with BRICs is already close to half of … volumes compared with those from advanced countries. Beyond the increased flows of goods and capital, BRICs have brought new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410305
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Recovery and Growth in Transition Economies 1990-1997 : A Stylized Regression Analysis
International Monetary Fund - 1998
This paper analyzes the determinants of growth in 25 transition economies during 1990–97. The paper’s main finding is that macroeconomic stabilization, structural reform, and reduction of government expenditures are key to achieving sustainable growth. Although the initial effect of reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400100
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Kenya; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Like most Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya’s economic growth appears to have been primarily driven by factor accumulation. The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for Kenya examines economic developments and policies. During the last two decades, Kenya has been plagued by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244155
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Israel; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes-Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module provides an assessment of Israel’s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245606
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Institutions Matter in Transition, But so do Policies
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000
This paper analyzes the importance of developing market-enhancing institutions for restoring economic growth in transition economies during 1991–98. The paper’s main finding is that the development of an institutional framework has indeed a significant positive impact on growth, but that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263992
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Financial Linkages Across Korean Banks
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
utilize high frequency financial data while the third uses bank balance sheet data to assess banks' bilateral exposures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293781
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561068
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Guinea; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper examines the sources of real growth in Guinea. It identifies and quantifies the impact on real GDP growth of both the exogenous shocks and the policy changes that have occurred since 2000. The paper offers, first, some empirical evidence on real GDP growth in Guinea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825469
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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768790