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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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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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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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India; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Despite the external origin of the financial crisis, the potential impact on India’s corporate sector could be large, as India has become increasingly integrated with the global economy in the past decade. The Selected Issues paper discusses India’s economic development and...
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Mexico; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper analyzes external shocks and business cycle fluctuations in Mexico. The paper examines the relative importance of U.S. demand shocks—and other foreign disturbances—in explaining Mexican output fluctuations. It identifies the dynamic response of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245436
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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity
Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound macroeconomic policies, as well as to a favorable external environment. This book focuses on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245903
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On the Heterogeneity Bias of Pooled Estimators in Stationary VAR Specifications
Rebucci, Alessandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper studies asymptotically the bias of the fixed effect (FE) estimator induced by cross-section heterogeneity in the slope parameters of stationary vector autoregressions (VARs). The paper also compares the FE, the mean group estimator (MG), and a simple instrumental variable alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263898
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Measuring Contagion with a Bayesian Time-Varying Coefficient Model
Rebucci, Alessandro; Ciccarelli, Matteo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
We propose using a Bayesian time-varying coefficient model estimated with Markov chain-Monte Carlo methods to measure contagion empirically. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263948