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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs : An Application to Slovakia
International Monetary Fund - 2012
, highlighting the dichotomy between productivity-driven long-run growth and short-run deviations from the underlying growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396613
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Trends and Cycles in the U.S. Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395945
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) : Labor Market Reforms to Boost Employment and Productivity in the GCC
International Monetary Fund - 2013
is relatively high, there is limited employment of nationals in the private sector, labor productivity has declined or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410425
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Post-Crisis Fiscal Policy Priorities for the AsEAN-5
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper focuses on post-crisis fiscal priorities in the ASEAN-5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Sound economic fundamentals and timely and forceful policy responses to the crisis, including fiscal stimulus, contributed to rapid economic recovery in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402657
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ASEAN Progress Towards Sustainable Development Goals and The Role of the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 2018
Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries continue their considerable past achievements. The Millennium Development Goals-which were to have been met by 2015-helped focus attention on achieving progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408467
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244125
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Why is China Growing So Fast?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
Since 1978 the Chinese economy has grown on average more than 9 percenta year. Per capita income has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years andsome analysts predict that within 20 years the Chinese economy will belarger than that of the United States. This pamphlet analyzes the reasonsfor the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403126
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Interpreting Real Exchange Rate Movements in Transition Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2001
that these appreciations reflect underlying productivity gains in the tradable sector. Using panel data over the period … 1993-98, the results show clear evidence of productivity-driven exchange rate movements in the central and eastern European … expect to experience further productivity-driven real exchange rate appreciations. Evidence from a large cross-section of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403602
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Asia Rising : A Sectoral Perspective
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It … finds that Asia''s remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity … encouraged resource shifts from low- to high-productivity sectors. Looking ahead, sustaining rapid growth requires meeting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401163
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The Great Contractions in Russia, the Baltics and the Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union : A View From the Supply Side
International Monetary Fund - 2000
collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399817