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Making the Global Economy Work for All (Revised)
International Monetary Fund - 2004
set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy. Through its work, the IMF helps to keep the … world economy running as smoothly as possible. Its work is aimed partly at the prevention of economic and financial crises … countries' economic size, determine countries' voting power in the IMF and the limits to what they can borrow. The IMF and World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397381
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Integrating Poor Countries into the World Trading System
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries … developing countries to choose fuller participation in the world trading system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411036
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The Global Informal Workforce : Priorities for Inclusive Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2021
The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410726
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Decoupling From the East toward the West? : Analyses of Spillovers to the Baltic Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2009
This paper uses VAR models to examine the magnitude and sources of growth spillovers to the Baltics from key trading partners, as well asfrom the real effective exchange rate (REER). Our results show there are significant cross-country spillovers to the Baltics with those from the EU outweighing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402484
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Changing Patterns of Global Trade
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The past few decades have seen important shifts that have reshaped the global trade landscape. As a share of global output, trade is now at almost three times the level in the early 1950s, in large part driven by the integration of rapidly growing emerging market economies (EMEs). The expansion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410225
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Trade Policy and Macroeconomic Balance in the World Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper explores the relationship between trade policy and current accounts. The effect on the current account of a change in protection at home and then abroad is analyzed, assuming that the exchange rate floats. The “savings-and-investment approach” is used. It shows that there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396105
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402215
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World Economic Outlook, October 1998 : Financial Turbulence in the World Economy A Survey by the Staff of the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 1998
The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff … economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403935
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External Sector Report, July 2018 : Tackling Global Imbalances amid Rising Trade Tensions
International Monetary Fund - 2018
, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408937