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This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global...
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Abstract Empirical evidence is mounting that, in advanced economies, changes in monetary policy have a more benign impact on the economy—given better anchored inflation expectations and inflation being less responsive to variation in unemployment—compared to the past. We examine another...
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Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to …
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External demand was the main driver of growth in Thailand in 2006 and 2007. However, WEO projections indicate …, and high oil prices. While the share of Thai exports to the US has fallen in recent years, the US remains Thailand …
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Philippines and Thailand), there were considerable differences both in terms of instantaneous impact of the crisis and in terms of … impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the … Philippines was larger and was sustained longer. Third, idiosyncratic factors pushed output up in Indonesia and down in Thailand …
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Thailand stands out in international comparison as a country with a high dispersion of productivity across sectors. It … has especially low labor productivity in agriculture—a sector that employs a much larger share of the population than is …
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Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
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This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that in 2012, Thailand’s economy rebounded strongly from the devastating floods, with real GDP growing by 6.5 percent. Private consumption rose 6.7 percent, reflecting pent-up demand and government measures, including the rice pledging scheme,...
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Thailand had to endure three major shocks during 2008–2011: the global financial crisis, the Japanese earthquake, and … the Thai floods of 2011. Over this period, consistent with its inflation targeting framework, the Bank of Thailand (BOT … added up to a total of 4 percentage points to real GDP growth during periods when Thailand had to weather these three major …
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