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Tests of German Resilience
Bornhorst, Fabian; Mody, Ashoka - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany’s formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and helped emerge from stagnation. Volatile external...
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Singapore: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that since the robust recovery from the global financial crisis, Singapore’s growth momentum has eased and become more erratic. Growth decelerated to 1¼ percent in 2012 before picking up sharply in the first half of 2013. This reflects...
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Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean; Guyana and Barbados
DaCosta, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The countries that were once British colonies in the Caribbean share a common language and a colonial history of slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions. Following independence in the late-1960s economic strategies and...
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Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment
Furceri, Davide; Bernal-Verdugo, Lorenzo E.; Guillaume, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654166
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Why Are Women Working so Much More in Canada? An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826383
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Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey
Levine, Paul; Lotti, Emanuela; Batini, Nicoletta; Kim, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by...
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Singapore: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues Paper discusses some observations on Singapore’s monetary policy framework. Singapore’s monetary policy uses the nominal effective exchange rate (NEER) as the instrument in a basket-band-crawl framework. The paper finds that under some conditions an exchange...
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Singapore: Detailed Assessment of Implementation-IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation on Singapore. Overall compliance with IOSCO …
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Singapore: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper discusses findings of the Report on Observance of Standards and Codes on Singapore. The Monetary Authority … of Singapore (MAS) shows a very high level of compliance with the Basel Core Principles and demonstrates a strong … system that is significantly larger than the economy of Singapore, and comprised primarily of branches of foreign …
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Singapore: Detailed Assessment of Compliance on the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Banking Supervision on Singapore. The assessment of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) represents a very high level of … implementation. MAS is well aware of the risks posed by a financial system that is significantly larger than the economy of Singapore …
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