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Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India
Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671312
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India; Is the Rising Tide Lifting All Boats?
Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768877
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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries … economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248163
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Inequality, Poverty, and Growth; Cross-Country Evidence
Iradian, Garbis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … reduces measurement error and ensures comparability across countries and over time. The empirical results in this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263901
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Life-Cycles, Dynasties, Savings; Implications for Closed and Small, Open Economies
Faruqee, Hamid; Laxton, Douglas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of life-cycle and dynastic saving behavior for closed and small, open economies. Using an extended version of Blanchard’s overlapping agents model, the analytical framework nests these two competing views, treating agents as either dynastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826319
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Australia; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This study relates Australian household saving more closely to movements in asset market using event study analysis and econometric analysis. In this study, the policy challenges for Australia from rebalancing in China, a temporary growth slowdown in China, and a recession in advanced countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245841
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The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies; A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries
Coady, David; Granado, Javier Arze del - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper reviews evidence on the impact of fuel subsidy reform on household welfare in developing countries. On average, the burden of subsidy reform is neutrally distributed across income groups; a $0.25 decrease in the per liter subsidy results in a 6 percent decrease in income for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671315
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China; Does Government Health and Education Spending Boost Consumption?
Barnett, Steven; Brooks, Ray - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. A key policy question is how to reverse this trend, and rebalance growth away from reliance on exports and investment and toward consumption. This paper investigates whether the sizable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561091
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Public Expenditureson Social Programs and Household Consumption in China
Baldacci, Emanuele; Ding, Ding; Coady, David; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper shows that increasing government social expenditures can make a substantive contribution to increasing household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and social expenditures for a panel of OECD countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470372
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Determinants of China's Private Consumption; An International Perspective
Guo, Kai; Papa M'B. P. N'Diaye - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper gauges the key determinants of China's private consumption in relation to GDP using data on the Chinese economy and evidence from other countries' experiences. The results suggest there is nothing "special" about consumption in China. Rather, the challenge is to explain why the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470395