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Mexico; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper is a wide-ranging survey of the conditions for, and obstacles to, the growth in Mexico. It frames the issue of Mexico’s growth record, and presents the paper’s prior assumptions and approach. It highlights the main observations and conclusions emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245707
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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound macroeconomic policies, as well as to a favorable external environment. This book focuses on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245903
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Bank Competition and Firm Creation
Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper investigates the empirical relationship between competition in the financial sector and the creation of … firms in the non-financial sector. It finds that bank competition has an overall positive effect on firm creation. However …, consistent with theories of banking arguing that competition may reduce the availability of credit to informationally opaque …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826289
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Domestic Competition, Cyclical Fluctuations, and Long-Run Growth in Hong Kong Sar
Zitzewitz, Eric - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper provides an empirical assessment of the degree of competition in Hong Kong SAR using industry-level data … decade has also made it slightly less competitive on average. Imperfect competition is not leading to counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769040
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De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China
Ahuja, Ashvin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
has encouraged more competition in merchandise manufacturing and heavy industries while barriers to market access remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242303
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Public Investment as an Engine of Growth
Warner, Andrew M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959467
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Kingdom of the Netherlands-Aruba; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245149
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Public Investment, Public Finance, and Growth: The Impact of Distortionary Taxation, Recurrent Costs, and Incomplete Appropriability
Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Effective public investment requires governments to address the "recurrent cost problem" to ensure operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures are sufficient to sustain the flow of productive public capital services to private factors of production. Building on the model of Buffie et al...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790277
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Guatemala; Selected Issues and Analytical Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243930
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Slowdown in Emerging Markets: Sign of a Bumpy Road Ahead?
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Following very strong growth during the period 2000–12, emerging market economies (EMEs) experienced a slowdown in the last couple of years. This paper examines the supply-side drivers of the strong growth performance of 63 EMEs and investigates if the recent slowdown in growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142160