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Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …
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This paper constructs a financial conditions index for Poland to explore the link between financial conditions and real economic activity. The index in constructed by applying two complementary approaches—factor analysis and vector auto-regression approach. We evaluate the index’s...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Republic of Poland constructs a financial conditions index for Poland to explore the link between financial conditions and real economic activity. Measures to contain the fiscal deficit in the aftermath of the global financial crisis led to a reduction in the...
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There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction...
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This paper examines the impact of interest rates and inflation on bank loans and investment within a framework that … treating the lending and deposit rates of interest as distinct parameters in investment equations. The spread between the two …
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This paper outlines the challenge of developing an operational macroeconomic framework in Ethiopia consistent with the large envisaged scaling up of aid to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper describes an MDG scenario that addresses both microeconomic and macroeconomic...
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This paper shows that aggregate investment expenditure shares on tradable and nontradable goods are very similar across … nontradable goods in investment can be modeled using the Cobb-Douglas aggregator. …
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directly or indirectly through investment. In contrast to earlier studies, we conclude that there is some evidence of positive …-eligible countries to reach higher growth, but it remains unclear whether this is through higher investment or another channel. Also, the …
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