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This paper discusses findings of the annual progress report on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Burundi. The report reveals that a number of decisive steps have been taken to promote political governance. Training sessions organized for local elected officials and members of parliament...
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Mauritania successfully completed its previous poverty reduction growth facility arrangement in December 2002. The focus of this report is on the effectiveness of policies adopted in the last few years and the medium-term strategy. Macroeconomic stability under the IMF-supported program and the...
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The staff report for Rwanda’s combined 2008 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion is examined. Sound macroeconomic and structural policies...
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This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malawi is at a critical juncture following its progress on macroeconomic stability, attainment of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) completion point in August 2006, and the recent launch of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy,...
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This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that from 1999 to 2002, Korea’s economy grew rapidly, by an average of 7¼ percent per year. But starting in 2003, the economy has begun to sputter. Growth suddenly stopped in the first half of the year, leapt ahead in the second half as...
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In the past decade, most of the EU New Member States experienced a severe credit-boom bust cycle. This paper argues … that the credit boom-bust cycle was to a large extent the result of factors external to the region (“bad luck”). Rapid … credit growth followed from a high liquidity in global markets and the particular attractiveness of “new Europe” for capital …
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loans are. The chapter is organized as follows: section II.B discusses credit developments in the last decade and factors …-country experiences with policy responses to rapid credit growth of foreign currency credit and discuss recent policy measures taken in …
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This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
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procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …
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This paper is an analysis of Japan’s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed … aspects act as an impediment to credit control. The Executive Board expects restructuring of financial policies in government … this paper as a study of Japan’s thoughts in an efficient route to credit boom …
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