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The Fund's Income Position for FY 2013-Actual Outcome
International Monetary Fund - 2013
This paper reports the Fund's income position for FY 2013 following the closing of the Fund's accounts for the … financial year and completion of the external audit. FY 2013 net income, including income from surcharges, amounted to SDR 2 … of currencies has been made from the GRA to the investment account. The placement of the net income to the Fund …
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Belgium : Selected Issues—Regional Labor Markets in Belgium
International Monetary Fund - 2002
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the regional labor markets for Belgium. The paper examines labor market performance, and argues that a number of factors—poor worker-job matching, a compressed wage structure, and low geographical mobility—contribute to economic disparities. The paper...
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Labor Market Reforms to Boost Employment and Productivity in the GCC
International Monetary Fund - 2013
The GCC growth model has delivered substantial improvements in living standards over several decades. Access to foreign labor has supported rapid growth in the non-oil sector and price stability in the region. It has also resulted in positive spillovers to the migrant-sending countries through...
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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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Japan 2011 Article IV consultation : 2011 selected issues
Berkmen, Pelin; Lam, W. Raphael; Steinberg, Chad Bennett; … - 2011
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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France
International Monetary Fund - 1997
This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...
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The Baltics and Bulgaria : Labor Markets in Hard-Peg Accession Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2001
The paper examines labor market developments in the four hard-peg European Union (EU) accession candidates during transition, with a view toward understanding the persistent high unemployment experienced in each country. Despite the significant levels of unemployment in all four countries, labor...
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Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment : The Case of Mauritius
International Monetary Fund - 2004
Governments often intervene in labor markets with the aim of reducing inequality and promoting employment. Such intervention often results in wage compression and restrictions on how firms use their workers. This paper investigates the impact of such interventions on the labor market conditions...
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Republic of Tajikistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Second Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824948
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Solomon Islands; Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The paper presents statistical data on real sector indicators, real GDP, formal employment, central government operations, revenue and grants, expenditure, budget financing, gross domestic debt, and equity investment in Solomon Islands. It also presents the summary accounts of the banking...
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