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Republic of Serbia Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Nonperforming Loans (NPLs) in the banking system constituted 16.5 percent of total loans, owing primarily to the corporate sector. The Credit Bureau, maintained by the Association of Serbian Banks, also discloses dramatic increases in corporate and retail defaults over the past year. NPL...
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Republic of Serbia : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This Technical Note assesses Corporate and Household Debt Restructuring in Serbia. As of June 2009, nonperforming loans …
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Spain : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Housing Prices, Household Debt, and Financial Stability
International Monetary Fund - 2006
policy elements. It examines the vulnerabilities of households' finances as a result of the rapid growth of housing prices …
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Spain : Vulnerabilities of Private Sector Balance Sheets and Risks to the Financial Sector Technical Notes
International Monetary Fund - 2012
household vulnerabilities, distinguishing between indebted and nonindebted households as well as accounting for the allocation … of debt, debt service burden, and households’ income and assets …This technical note assesses the vulnerabilities of household and corporate sector balance sheets and quantifies the …
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Djibouti; 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
Djibouti’s 2007 Article IV Consultation focuses on the medium-term growth prospects and policies necessary to ensure that growth is broad based and accompanied by sufficient employment creation. Real GDP growth is estimated at 4.8 percent in 2006, driven by fiscal expansion, and a sizable...
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Dependency Rates and Private Savings Behavior in Developing Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1988
countries is still lacking. Two demographic extensions of the representative household’s stochastic dynamic optimization problem … are presented here. It is shown that the relationship between expected dependency rates and consumption growth depends on … two parameters: the demographically varying committed consumption and the intertemporal elasticity of substitution. Thus …
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Philippines; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper highlights the Philippine growth performance led by the services sector. Average GDP growth is higher in the post-Asian crisis period in the Philippines, while the majority of the Philippines’s regional peers have experienced substantially lower growth in the...
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Urban and Rural Household Savings in China
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Household savings behavior in China during the past 30 years has been studied by using econometric models with the time …
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Japan's Household Savings Rate : An Application of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis
International Monetary Fund - 1987
This paper develops and tests a model of Japan’s household savings rate, based on the life-cycle hypothesis that the … primary motive for savings is provision for retirement. The paper shows that Japan’s high household savings rate in recent … and life-expectancy effects of an income change, which has initially outweighed the negative combined influence of …
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Côte d'Ivoire: Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative; Completion Point Document and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative; Press Release
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
In April 2009, the Boards of Executive Directors of the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed that Côte d’Ivoire had met the requirements for reaching the decision point under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)...
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