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India’s Recent Macroeconomic Performance: An Assessment and Way Forward
Kapur, Muneesh; Mohan, Rakesh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The macroeconomic policy response in India after the North Atlantic financial crisis (NAFC) was rapid. The overshooting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142116
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Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator: Policy Imperatives
Mohan, Rakesh; Kapur, Muneesh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
India’s real GDP growth slipped substantially after the North Atlantic financial crisis. Return to a sustained high growth trajectory is feasible but it will need much more focused attention to the revival of manufacturing and to the acceleration of investment in transport and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242441
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China’s Demography and its Implications
Lee, Il Houng; Qingjun, Xu; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
reassess national savings behavior, with greater prominence and more careful consideration given to the role played by changing … literature. Going further, we simulate global savings behavior based on our framework and find that China’s demographics should … decades, individual countries’ convergence toward the simulated savings pattern will be influenced by their past divergences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142029
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The Volatility Trap; Precautionary Saving, Investment, and Aggregate Risk
Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a "store-or-sow" model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high precautionary saving in the safe asset and low investment, or a "volatility trap." Namely, big savers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242299
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The East African Community; Prospects for Sustained Growth
McAuliffe, Catherine; Saxena, Sweta Chaman; Yabara, Masafumi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
countries have a smaller share of exports, lower degree of financial deepening, lower levels of domestic savings, higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242354
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Growth Following Investment and Consumption-Driven Current Account Crises
Klemm, Alexander - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Current account deficits imply increasing liabilities to the rest of the world. External sustainability then depends on whether these can be met in the future without defaulting, i.e., normally through trade account surpluses. To run such surpluses without a fall in consumption, capital inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790435
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German Unification: Economic Issues
Lipschitz, Leslie; McDonald, Donogh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767379
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The Role of Domestic Debt Markets in Economic Growth; An Empirical Investigation for Low-Income Countries and Emerging Markets
Abbas, S. M. Ali; Christensen, Jakob - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
/accountability; and enhanced private savings and financial intermediation. There is some evidence that, above a ratio of 35% percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768875
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Population Aging in Japan; Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability
Mühleisen, Martin; Faruqee, Hamid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
The paper develops a general equilibrium framework to examine the economic implications of population aging in Japan. Particular attention is paid to aggregate saving behavior which is modeled on the basis of empirical age-earnings profiles using a life-cycle approach. The paper's objectives are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769220
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When is a Fiscal Surplus Appropriate?
Hemming, Richard; Daniel, James - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769368