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Botswana; 2013 Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

Botswana. The IMF report analyzes that large public employment significantly affect labor market outcomes in middle …-income countries, including Botswana. It is noted that reforms aimed at reducing the rents and the size of the public sector is likely … to significantly improve market outcomes in Botswana. As part of efforts to find new engines of growth and support …

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Botswana: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; and Press Release

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

the Botswana authorities paid off with an impressive increase in the GDP per capita during the last three decades. However …

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Botswana; 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

Botswana. The output growth is expected to remain broadly unchanged in 2013 as strong nonmining sector growth would offset the …

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Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-Introducing a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

Botswana has committed to introduce the MTEF by 2016. The MTEF will provide a more explicit linkage between National …

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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

Kriljenko, Jorge Iván Canales; Gwenhamo, Farayi; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA swamps remittances, this paper finds that...

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Bangladesh; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the surprising strength of remittances in Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia and the Philippines in 2009. The empirical analysis suggests that the continued strong growth of remittances in these countries is related to the resilience of non-oil GDP...

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Remittances in Pakistan; Why have they gone up, and why Aren't they coming down?

Sun, Yan; Kock, Udo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of slowing down, despite the economic downturn in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other important host countries for Pakistani workers. This paper analyses the forces that...

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Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances

Fullenkamp, Connel; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...

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Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility; A Political Economy Perspective

Tosun, Mehmet S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...

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