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Nigeria: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Nigeria
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015
KEY ISSUES Context. Nigeria has a large and diverse economy that has achieved a decade of strong growth, averaging 6 ….8 percent a year. However, Nigeria still lags peers in critical infrastructure and has high rates of poverty and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245409
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Nigeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release and Statement by the Executive Director for Nigeria
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights Nigeria’s poverty and income inequality that remain high and social and governance indicators that are below averages for sub-Saharan Africa. Growth is expected to remain strong, driven by agriculture, trade, and services. Inflation should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243863
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Nigeria; 2012 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
The overarching policy challenge facing Nigeria is to reduce widespread poverty and unemployment. Macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244107
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Financial Integration and Rebalancing in Asia
Unteroberdoerster, Olaf; Pongsaparn, Runchana - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by various measures. The paper also provides empirical evidence that greater financial integration can support economic rebalancing in statistically meaningful ways. The implication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369446
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Understanding the Evolution of World Business Cycles
Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher; Whiteman, Charles H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
globalization period (1986-2003). The results indicate that the common (G-7) factor explains a larger fraction of output …, consumption, and investment volatility in the globalization period than in the BW period. These findings suggest that the degree … globalization period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825664
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Global Business Cycles; Convergence or Decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Otrok, Christopher - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825794
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship Between Growth and Volatility?
Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco; Kose, M. Ayhan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
context of globalization-a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825974
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Changing Nature of North-South Linkages; Stylized Facts and Explanations
Akin, Çigdem; Kose, M. Ayhan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
countries, the South, driven by the process of globalization?the phenomenon of rising international trade and financial flows … economic activity on the Emerging South has declined during the globalization period (1986-2005). In contrast, the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769105
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Sub-Saharan Africa's Integration in the Global Financial Markets
Deléchat, Corinne; Wakeman-Linn, John; Wagh, Smita; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The paper uses a unique database covering 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries between 2000 and 2007 to study the determinants of the allocation and composition of flows across countries, as well as channels through which private capital flows could affect growth. In our sample,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528679
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The Elusive Gains From International Financial Integration
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Jeanne, Olivier - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of income convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605034