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Review of the IMF's Trade Restrictiveness Index
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper examines the construction of the index and its use over the past seven years, identifies its limitations …
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Consumer Price Index Manual : Theory and Practice
International Monetary Fund - 2004
The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over …
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Producer Price Index Manual : Theory and Practice
International Monetary Fund - 2004
National Accounts1993 and recent developments in index number theory. Preparation of the Manual was undertaken by the …The producer price index (PPI) measures the rate at which the prices of producer goods and services are changing … overtime. It is a key statistic for economic and business decision making and inflation monitoring. The Producer Price Index …
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Export and Import Price Index Manual : Theory and Practice
International Monetary Fund - 2009
A joint production by six international organizations, this manual explores the conceptual and theoretical issues that national statistical offices should consider in the daily compilation of export and import price indices. Intended for use by both developed and developing countries, it...
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Institutional Development : Skill Transference Through a Reversal of ""Human Capital Flight"" or Technical Assistance
International Monetary Fund - 1997
We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...
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Theoretical Aspects of Growth in Developing Countries : External Debt Dynamics and the Role of Human Capital
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper formulates a simple aggregate growth model that is capable of assessing the impact of macroeconomic policies on the long-term performance of a developing country. The model emphasizes expenditures on human capital and the dynamics of external debt, and yields empirically testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396208
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Human Capital Flight : Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1994
This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human...
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New Rates From New Weights
International Monetary Fund - 2005
basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF''s current effective exchange …
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Commodity Prices As a Leading Indicator of Inflation
International Monetary Fund - 1988
significantly improves the fit of regressions of a multi-country consumer price index. However, there does not appear to be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396014
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital acquisition. We use the standard system GMM approach as well as...
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