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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
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information have been removed. Since 2011, Korea also applies the Korean International Financial Reporting Standards (K-IFRS) that …-deliberation committees at various levels. Self-regulatory organizations—the Korea Exchange (KRX), the Korea Financial Investment …
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This paper discusses key findings of the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes for the Republic of Korea …. Responsibilities, objectives, and powers related to banking supervision are clearly defined in the Republic of Korea. The legal …
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The financial stability assessment under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) for Korea was carried out in … the Bank of Korea (BOK), complemented by macroeconomic projections from the BOK’s macroeconomic model. These were …
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This Financial System Stability Assessment report on the Republic of Korea highlights that the Korean economy is …
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on the real estate market and Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. It discusses the measures that could mitigate risks associated with the real estate cycle and the international experience with real estate booms and hosting large events such as World Expos,...
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Korea was hit hard by the 2008 global financial crisis, with the foreign bank deleveraging channel coming prominently … 2008. Impulse responses from a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model calibrated to Korea shows that it … appears better prepared to handle such shocks relative to 2008. Indeed, Korea is much more resilient to such shocks due to the …
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Growth takeoffs in developing economies have rebounded in the past two decades. Although recent takeoffs have lasted longer than takeoffs before the 1990s, a key question is whether they could unravel like some did in the past. This paper finds that recent takeoffs are associated with stronger...
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Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly … promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea. In particular, simulation results suggest that social spending which …—there is still a social spending gap relative to Korea’s OECD peers. Because of several fiscal challenges in the coming decades …
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