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Energy subsidy reform : lessons and implications
Clements, Benedict J. (ed.); Coady, David P. (ed.) - 2013
"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity. It lays out an analysis of "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights...
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Food and Fuel Prices-Recent Developments, Macroeconomic Impact, and Policy Responses-An Update
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This report updates the macroeconomic assessment of the impact of global food and fuel price increases provided in the IMF June 2008 Board paper: Food and Fuel Prices-Recent Developments, Macroeconomic Impact, and Policy Response. Food and oil prices peaked in early summer-in particular, oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409865
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Energy Subsidy Reform : Lessons and Implications
International Monetary Fund - 2013
Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410519
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Case Studies on Energy Subsidy Reform-Lessons and Implications : Supplement
International Monetary Fund - 2013
This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the reform lessons identified in the main paper. The selection of countries for the case studies reflects the availability of data and of previously documented evidence on...
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Canada: 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that the Canadian economy strengthened in 2013 after a subdued performance in 2012, but the underlying growth has remained modest. Despite the depreciating exchange rate, non-energy exports remained well below the levels reached after earlier...
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Canada: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
and challenges for Canada. The unconventional energy boom has had significant positive effects on Canada’s economic …
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Uzbekistan
Odling-Smee, John C. (contributor); Kapur, Ishan (contributor) - International Monetary Fund - 1992
Der Länderbericht des IMF über Usbekistan gibt einen Überblick über den wirtschaftlichen Hintergrund und die Wirtschaftsstruktur des Landes. In weiteren Kapiteln wird die jüngere wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und die Wirtschafts- und Reformpolitik für 1992 dargestellt. Die Felder für...
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Tajikistan
Odling-Smee, John C. (ed.); Gerhard, Hans (contributor) - International Monetary Fund - 1992
Der Bericht des IMF über Tadschikistan gibt einen Überblick über die Wirtschaftsstruktur des Landes und beschreibt dann die jüngere Wirtschaftsentwicklung anhand der einzelnen volkswirtschaftlichen Aggregate. In einem weiteren Kapitel werden die Felder der Wirtschafts- und Reformpolitik...
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Hungary : Economic Policies for Sustainable Growth
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Economic developments in Hungary during 1995-97 illustrate one of the most remarkable cases of macroeconomic adjustment in Europe over the last decade. Several momentous steps in the integration of the Hungarian economy with the rest of Europe and the industrial countries community took place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404972
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Canada : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2000
The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the … in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP …) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the …
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