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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408600
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Report of the Executive Board Working Group on IMF Corporate Governance
International Monetary Fund - 2008
Corporate Governance - Including the Role of the Executive Board'. The Joint Statement issued by the Executive Board and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410186
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IMF Governance Reform
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper reviews progress under the Fund's strengthened cooperative strategy on overdue financial obligations. Since the last review, total arrears to the Fund declined by SDR 17.5 million to SDR 1,309.5 million. Payments to the Fund by Sudan and Zimbabwe were in excess of new obligations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410203
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This Selected Issues paper for Italy presents updated estimates of potential growth for Italy, using new techniques that draw on co-movements of output, employment, and inflation over the business cycle to distinguish trends from cycles. The paper provides an assessment of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825027
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Portugal; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
protection and corporate governance. Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM) is the regulator in charge on ensuring … compliance with disclosure issues as well as the corporate governance framework. It has also participated in the creation of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242466
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Australia; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Investor Protection, Disclosure, and Financial Literacy
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This study reviews selected issues on investor protection and corporate governance in Australia, and concludes that the … corporate governance framework for Australian-listed companies is largely healthy and dynamic. Shareholder activism is an … important element of corporate governance because it promotes compliance and implementation of disclosure and corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243130
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The Fiscal Implications of Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2008
change and (later) benefits, pervasive uncertainties and irreversibilities (including risk of catastrophe), and sharp … asymmetries in the effects on different countries-that raise difficult technical and ethical issues, and hinder policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409978
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Delivering Climate-Change Mitigation under Diverse National Policy Approaches : An independent IMF/OECD report to support the German 2022 G7 Presidency
OECD; International Monetary Fund - 2022
In spite of progress made to date and the significant long-term ambition announced by many countries, climate policy … monitor climate policies, there is not yet a “go to” place for a comprehensive inventory of policy actions and best practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013523805
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New Zealand : 2005 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that New Zealand’s GDP growth was particularly strong in 2004, at 4.8 percent, led by a surge in domestic demand. Private consumption grew by 6 percent, reflecting high employment growth, strong commodity prices, and household borrowing against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405888
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New Zealand : 2004 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
International Monetary Fund - 2004
This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic growth in New Zealand slowed in early 2003 but rebounded in the latter part of the year. Real GDP growth declined from 41⁄4 percent in 2002 to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 23⁄4 percent in the first half of 2003, amid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406027