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Fiscal Rules-Anchoring Expectations for Sustainable Public Finances
International Monetary Fund - 2009
The sharp increase in fiscal deficits and public debt in most advanced and several developing economies has raised concerns about the sustainability of public finances and highlighted the need for a significant adjustment over the medium term. This paper assesses the usefulness of fiscal rules...
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Italy : Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System
International Monetary Fund - 2007
The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …
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Competition in Indian Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2005
It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …
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Competitiveness in the Baltics in the Run-Up to EU Accession
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since the start of the transition process. In the earlier years of transition, price liberalization,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407140
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Republic of Kazakhstan : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update—Technical Note—Bank Profitability and Competition
International Monetary Fund - 2004
competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …
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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs : An Application to Slovakia
International Monetary Fund - 2012
Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of...
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Indonesia: selected issues
Adler, Gustavo; Li, Xianming; Ramakrishnan, Uma; … - 2010
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Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity
World Bank - 2014
The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first...
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Global Monitoring Report 2006 : Millennium Development Goals - Strengthening Mutual Accountability, Aid, Trade, and Governance
International Monetary Fund - 2012
One decade remains to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that the international community set out in 2000. Yet the world is still far from achieving the MDGs. This Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reviews the efforts under way to strengthen mutual accountability. Greater resource flows...
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