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Social Security Issues in Developing Countries : The Latin American Experience

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The paper surveys the major economic, financial, and administrative issues that confront social security systems in Latin America. The larger systems have contributed substantially to public sector financial disequilibria. Expenditures of the younger systems with more limited coverage could...

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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor

International Monetary Fund - 1990

In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...

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Advancing the frontiers of monetary policy

Adrian, Tobias (ed.); Laxton, Douglas (ed.); … - 2018

Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including …Part I. The frontiers of monetary policymaking. 1. An overview of inflation-forecast targeting -- Part II. Principles … and practices of inflation-forecast targeting. 2. First principles -- 3. Managing expectations -- 4. Nuts and bolts of a …

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Assessments of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies-Review of Experience

International Monetary Fund - 2003

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Design Issues in Low-Income Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2005

Considers possible adjustments in the design of Fund-supported programs, drawing on the experience of low-income countries that have successfully addressed the most apparent domestic macroeconomic imbalances

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The Macroeconomics of Managing Increased Aid Inflows : Experiences of Low-Income Countries and Policy Implications

International Monetary Fund - 2005

Investigates the macroeconomic challenges for low-income countries created by a surge in aid inflows. It develops an analytical framework for examining possible policy responses to increased aid, and then applies this framework to the experience of five relatively well-governed countries that...

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Macro Policy Lessons for a Sound Design of Fiscal Decentralization-Background Studies

International Monetary Fund - 2009

This paper provides background to the Board paper on Macro Policy Lessons for a Sound Design of Fiscal Decentralization. It summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) for ten countries to which it provided advice on fiscal decentralization. The selected...

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Macro Policy Lessons for a Sound Design of Fiscal Decentralization

International Monetary Fund - 2009

Fiscal decentralization has been, and remains high on the policy agenda of many countries. It is mainly driven by political pressures, which tend to be especially evident in countries with multiple ethnicities, and/or wide regional disparities in incomes or resource endowments. More generally,...

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What Have We Learned? : Macroeconomic Policy After the Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 2014

Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to...

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Indonesia : Detailed Assessment of Observance of IMF Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper discusses key findings of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) covering the transparency of monetary policy in the Republic of Indonesia. There is a reasonably high degree of transparency in Indonesia’s monetary policy, with much progress having been made over the last...

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