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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

Hsiao, William C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need in situations where they must address issues concerning health sector policy and when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to...

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Bosnia and Herzegovina; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paperâ€”Mid-Term Development Strategy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...

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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599256

Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges

Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...

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Germany; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper attempts to analyze the end-point problem and improve the quality of potential GDP estimates for Germany. It projects that Germanyâ€™s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term...

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Uganda; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

growth from total factor productivity has been minor, while the high population growth poses a significant challenge to …

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Real Exchange Rates and Fundamentals; A Cross-Country Perspective

Ricci, Luca Antonio; Lee, Jaewoo; Milesi-Ferretti, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper employs newly constructed measures for productivity differentials, external imbalances, and commodity terms …-based real exchange rate and commodity terms of trade. The estimated impact of productivity growth differentials between traded …

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Global Imbalances; The Role of Non-Tradabletotal Factor Productivity in Advanced Economies

Rebucci, Alessandro; Batini, Nicoletta; Cova, Pietro; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of …

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New Shocks, Exchange Rates and Equityprices

Cova, Pietro; Rebucci, Alessandro; Matsumoto, Akito; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We study exchange rate and equity price dynamics, in general equilibrium, in the presence of news shocks about future … productivity and monetary policy. We identify a condition under which these asset prices become more volatile without affecting the … to productivity shocks. The model we set up does well at matching second moments of exchange rate and equity returns for …

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Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries; Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

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