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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...
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Exchange Arrangements and Foreign Exchange Markets : Developments and Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper reviews developments and issues in the exchange arrangements and currency convertibility of IMF members. Against the backdrop of continuing financial globalization and a series of emerging market crises since 1997, there have been important changes in the evolution of exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404579
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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1984
increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406218
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Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices in Neoclassical Model
International Monetary Fund - 1988
and world commodity supplies and the real exchange rate and real commodity prices. It is shown that fiscal expansion and … increasing world commodity supplies simultaneously lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and a decline in relative …
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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 … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly … trade volatility offset the positive impact of commodity booms; and export diversification of primary commodity abundant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Capital flows can deliver substantial benefits for countries, but also have the potential to contribute to a buildup of systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries whose financial and institutional development enables...
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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
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Exchange Rate Movements and International Interdependence of Stock Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper investigates linkages between stock markets in seven industrialized countries since 1974. Empirical evidence shows that both nominal and real stock prices (and returns) are strongly positively correlated across countries, and that nominal exchange rate changes do not have systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396348
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The Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2015
The Fund has a role to play in helping its members address those challenges of climate change for which fiscal and macroeconomic policies are an important component of the appropriate policy response. The greenhouse gas mitigation pledges submitted by over 160 countries ahead of the pivotal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408643
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The Fiscal Implications of Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal implications of climate change, and the potential role of the Fund in addressing them. It stresses that: -- The potential fiscal implications are immediate as well as lasting, and liable to affect-in differing forms and degree-all Fund members. -- Climate change is...
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