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Chad; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty, competitiveness, and fiscal policy challenges posed by the oil revenue outlook. The paper discusses the reforms needed to remove structural factors that constraints the non-oil...

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Common Factors in Latin America's Business Cycles

Timmermann, Allan; Catão, Luis; Aiolfi, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper constructs new business cycle indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico based on common dynamic factors extracted from a comprehensive set of sectoral output, external data, and fiscal and financial variables spanning over a century. The constructed indices are used to derive a...

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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper analyzes macroeconomic fluctuations in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). The paper describes data, along with the estimation technique used to ensure stationarity of the data. The empirical regularities of macroeconomic fluctuations in the ECCU are...

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How Accurate Are Private Sector Forecasts; Cross-Country Evidence From Consensus Forecasts of Output Growth

Loungani, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper evaluates the performance of Consensus Forecasts of GDP growth for industrialized and developing countries from 1989 to 1998. The questions addressed are (1) How do forecast errors differ across industrialized and developing countries? (2) How well do forecasters predict recessions?...

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India in the 1980's and 1990's; A Triumph of Reforms

Panagariya, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Bradford DeLong and Dani Rodrik have argued that reforms in India cannot be credited with higher growth because the growth rate crossed the 5 percent mark in the 1980s, well before the launch of the July 1991 reforms. This is a wrong reading of the Indian experience for two reasons. First,...

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Islamic Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Status and Prospects

Gelbard, E.; Hussain, Mumtaz; Maino, Rodolfo; Mu, Yibin; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

. Ongoing activities include Islamic banking, sukuk issuances (to finance infrastructure projects), Takaful (insurance), and …

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Georgia: Financial System Stability Assessment

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This paper discusses findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment for Georgia. Georgia has weathered several shocks, but still faces a number of important risks. The economy has withstood well the conflict with Russia, the global financial crisis, and domestic political uncertainty....

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Germany: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

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Belgium; Detailed Assessment of Observance of Insurance Core Principles

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

The Belgian insurance industry was adversely affected by the global financial crisis and continued to confront … in updating the insurance regulatory regime and supervisory practice. The updated regulatory framework has a high level … of observance with the Insurance Core Principles (ICPs), supported by robust prudential supervision. The authorities are …

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France; 2012 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The 2012 Article IV Consultation with France discusses the financial and economic conditions of the country. Although France weathered the 2008 financial and subsequent euro area crises relatively well compared with other advanced countries, its recovery has been sluggish. France has become a...

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