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The Incidence and Effectiveness of Prior Actions in IMF-Supported Programs
Ramakrishnan, Uma; Thomas, Alun H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Prior actions are measures that need to be implemented prior to Board approval of an IMFsupported program. This paper examines whether such prior actions can signal a willingness to implement reforms, especially when the member's track record is weak. We find some support for this signaling...
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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654140
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah; Bruckner, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876604
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What Explains the Rise in Food Price Volatility?
Roache, Shaun K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
of importers and exporters, budgets, inflation, and poverty. For market participants and policymakers, managing low … determinants of low frequency volatility, two of which—the variation in U.S. inflation and the U.S. dollar exchange rateâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560434
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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142122
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Do IMF-Supported Programs Help Make Fiscal Adjustment More Durable?
Moon, Soojin; Bulir, Ales - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during the 1990s. It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the composition of this improvement differed. In nonprogram countries, revenues increased modestly and expenditure declined sharply, while in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263802
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How Does Conditional Aid (Not) Work?
Ramcharan, Rodney - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Does policy conditionality worsen domestic welfare, as governments are forced to attempt unpopular reforms resulting in damaging protests, or does conditionality help implement reforms that otherwise would have been impossible? This paper analyzes these questions. Using a game-theoretic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768864
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The Economic Performance Index (EPI): an Intuitive Indicator for Assessing a Country's Economic Performance Dynamics in an Historical Perspective
Khramov, Vadim; Lee, John Ridings - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
inflation, unemployment, government deficit, and GDP growth into a single indicator. In contrast to other indexes, the EPI does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990724
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Monetary Policy Transmission in the GCC Countries
Prasad, Ananthakrishnan; Espinoza, Raphael A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
policy has a strong and statistically significant impact on broad money, non-oil activity, and inflation in the GCC region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878414
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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
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