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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142122
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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; Rice Tariffs Versus Targeted Transfers in Madagascar
Dorosh, Paul A.; Coady, David; Minten, Bart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826495
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Lucas vs. Lucas; On Inequality and Growth
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Verdier, Geneviève - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Lucas (2004) asserts that "Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution... The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599308
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Monetary and Macroprudential Policies to Manage Capital Flows
Guzman, Juan Pablo Medina; Roldos, Jorge - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
-cum-fire-sales amplification mechanism. In response to fluctuations in world interest rates, inflation targeting dominates standard Taylor rules …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123855
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The Welfare Implications of Services Liberalization in a Developing Country; Evidence from Tunisia
Jouini, Nizar; Rebei, Nooman - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
We propose an integrated method based on a two-sector small open economy dynamic and stochastic general equilibrium model to estimate non-tariff barriers and quantify the impact of services liberalization. The major component of trade barriers is explicitly modeled through the introduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242426
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The Economic Performance Index (EPI): an Intuitive Indicator for Assessing a Country's Economic Performance Dynamics in an Historical Perspective
Khramov, Vadim; Lee, John Ridings - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
inflation, unemployment, government deficit, and GDP growth into a single indicator. In contrast to other indexes, the EPI does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990724
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Monetary Policy Transmission in the GCC Countries
Prasad, Ananthakrishnan; Espinoza, Raphael A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
policy has a strong and statistically significant impact on broad money, non-oil activity, and inflation in the GCC region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878414
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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878415
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Does the Clarity of Inflation Reports Affect Volatility in Financial Markets?
Bulir, Ales; Cihak, Martin; Jansen, David-Jan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959473
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Food Inflation in India: The Role for Monetary Policy
Anand, Rahul; Ding, Ding; Tulin, Volodymyr - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Indian food and fuel inflation has remained high for several years, and second-round effects on core inflation are … model of the Indian economy, which incorporates pass-through from headline inflation to core inflation. The results indicate … that India's inflation is highly inertial and persistent. Due to second-round effects, the gap between headline inflation …
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