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Inclusive Growth; Measurement and Determinants
Anand, Rahul; Mishra, Saurabh; Peiris, Shanaka J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
and income distribution outcomes, using data over three decades. Country distributions are calibrated by combining PPP GDP … per capita and income distribution from survey data. We apply the microeconomic concept of a social mobility function at … dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242387
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Czech Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal reform of the Czech Republic, its key reform measures, and structural implications. The study also focuses on key challenges and demographic pressures facing the Czech economy, and describes the analytical framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242637
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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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Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk
Roca, Mauro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model calibrated to the U.S. shows that market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528693
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Social Spending in Korea; Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth?
Elekdag, Selim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242304
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Haiti; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This document presents a profile of poverty, and indicates briefly the stakes and challenges involved, using available quantitative and qualitative data to specify the targeted objectives to be reached. Actions to be taken are then positioned within a macroeconomic framework for which short- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243371
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Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. The National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper represents the result of analyses of the country’s current situation as well as a set of proposals designed to rout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599089
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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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Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ji, Yan; Townsend, Robert; Unsal, D. … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
development—three low-income countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique), and three emerging market countries (Malaysia, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163128
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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