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Financial Soundness Indicators : Compilation Guide

International Monetary Fund - 2006

Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) are measures that indicate the current financial health and soundness of a country's financial institutions, and their corporate and household counterparts. FSIs include both aggregated individual institution data and indicators that are representative of...

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Monetary Policy Strategies

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal...

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Robust Versus Optimal Rules in Monetary Policy: A Note

International Monetary Fund - 2004

We provide a framework for analyzing the choice between optimal and robust monetary policy rules in the presence of paradigm uncertainty. We first discuss the conditions on uncertainty that render a robust rule preferable to an optimal rule. Second, we show how the degree of risk aversion of the...

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Inflation Targeting As a Framework for Monetary Policy

International Monetary Fund - 1998

Inflation distorts prices, erodes savings, discourages investment,stimulates capital flight, inhibits growth, and makes economic planning anightmare. During the past decade, several advanced economies have takena new approach to the age-old problem of controlling inflation throughmonetary policy...

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Kenya : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on Kenya explains macroeconomic, structural, and social …

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Kenya : 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kenya

International Monetary Fund - 2008

Kenya’s macroeconomic performance continued to improve until violence erupted in the aftermath of the general elections …

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Kenya : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund - 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 pervasive problems of internal conflicts, constitutional crises, and corruption …

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Kenya : Report on Observance of Standards and Codes: Fiscal Transparency Module

International Monetary Fund - 2008

In Kenya, the general government is not defined consistently with government finance statistics (GFS) principles … with overall fiscal management. External scrutiny of macroeconomic assumptions is encouraged. Kenya meets some of the …

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Financial Policy Workshops : The Case of Kenya

International Monetary Fund - 1985

This book, written by the staff of the IMF Institute, offers a series of workshops on Kenya that are used as a case …

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Kenya : Third Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria: Staff Report; Press Release

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper describes Kenya’s third review under the three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and … request for modification of performance criteria. The Executive Board approved a three-year ECF arrangement for Kenya on …

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