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United Republic of Tanzania; Sixth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for a Three-Year Policy Support Instrument: S...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper discusses key findings of the Sixth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for Tanzania. Economic growth, inflation, and the external position have evolved in a manner consistent with program objectives, and the program has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244256
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Burkina Faso; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244817
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Benin; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—2005 Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) was developed based on a long participatory process based on an institutional mechanism involving all socioeconomic development actors in the country. The annual review of the PRSP seeks to assess the results achieved in the implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245136
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Guinea-Bissau; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper presents an overview of the National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (NPRSP) for Guinea-Bissau. The paper discusses the phenomenon of poverty, its dimensions, extent, and distribution by category and region. It provides a background analysis of developments in poverty based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245554
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Oil Prices, External Income, and Growth; Lessons From Jordan
Raissi, Mehdi; Mohaddes, Kamiar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
inflows of external income?the sum of remittances, FDI and general government transfers?from major oil-exporting economies …-run relationships: an output equation as predicted by theory and an equation linking foreign and domestic inflation rates. It is shown … that real output in the long run is shaped by: (i) oil prices through their impact on external income and in turn on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401201
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Republic of Tajikistan; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Second Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
drastically. Income poverty remains high. People’s access to energy, water, communications, education, and health services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824948
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Macroeconomics of Migration in New Member States
Bems, Rudolfs; Schellekens, Philip - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825900
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Institutions V. Geography; Sub-National Evidence From the United States
Romero-Barrutieta, Alma; Clifton, Eric V. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Empirical studies of the impact of geography and institutions on growth and development at the international level have become common place, but the high degree of abstraction at that level has led to calls for subnational studies. This paper examines these issues for a region of the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768750
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Explaining China's Low Consumption; The Neglected Role of Household Income
Aziz, Jahangir; Cui, Li - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
larger has been the role of the declining share of household income in national income, which has occurred across …-the-board in wages, investment income, and government transfers. The paper finds that financial sector weaknesses, by restricting … income shares low and on a declining trend. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768788
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The Long-Run Effects of Tradeon Income and Income Growth
Brunner, Allan D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate …This paper examines the dynamic relationship between trade and income. While most economists agree that increased trade … of the economy. Using a dynamic panel data model, the hypotheses of no long-run effects of trade on income and on income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769087