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Investment-Led Growth in China; Global Spillovers
Ahuja, Ashvin; Nabar, Malhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
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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Republic of Poland; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244033
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A Financial Conditions Index for Poland
Ho, Giang; Lu, Yinqiu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
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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Iceland: Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015
This Selected Issues paper examines implications of capital account liberalization in Iceland. Capital controls were critical in 2008 to avoid a more severe collapse of the Icelandic economy. Six years later, capital inflows have been liberalized, but most outflows remain restricted. Iceland has...
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Euro Area Policies: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper assesses the youth unemployment problem in advanced European economies, especially the euro area. Youth unemployment rates increased sharply in the euro area after the crisis. Much of these increases can be explained by output dynamics and the greater sensitivity of...
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Denmark: Systemic Issues in Mortgage Loans and Covered Bond Finance - Technical Note
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This technical note analyzes systemic issues in mortgage loans and covered bond finance in Denmark. Mortgage lending has seen significant product innovation in recent years. Loans with adjustable interest rates and/or interest-only periods, which have been introduced since the late 1990s, had...
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Money isn't Everything; The Challenge of Scaling Up Aid to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia
Mattina, Todd D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
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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Aggregate Investment Expenditureson Tradable and Nontradable Goods
Bems, Rudolfs - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248190
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Three Propositions on African Economic Growth
Dhonte, Pierre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264269
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German Unification: Economic Issues
Lipschitz, Leslie; McDonald, Donogh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1990
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