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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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Guatemala; Selected Issues and Analytical Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243930
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Economic Stabilization and Growth in Portugal
Schmitt, Hans O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1981
This paper reviews economic stabilization and growth in Portugal during the 1970s. Following a decade of rapid growth with external equilibrium, the Portuguese economy in the early 1970s suffered a series of major shocks. The paper highlights that the problem of managing economic growth with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824861
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U.S. Fiscal Policies and Priorities for Long-Run Sustainability
Mühleisen, Martin; Towe, Christopher M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper presents an overview of recent U.S. fiscal developments and discusses possible implications of the sharp turn around in the government’s fiscal position. Against this back ground, it also reviews key policy challenges that will need to be addressed to cope with the mounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824863
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Iceland; 2005 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Icel...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
exhibiting signs of overheating, with imbalances evident in inflation, the current account, and external debt. GDP grew at an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825269
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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley; Sahay, Ratna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition economies. We first review the initial conditions confronting these economies, the reform strategy that was proposed, and the associated controversies that arose a decade ago. We then account for the widely different outcomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825770
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Five Years After; European Union Membership and Macro-Financial Stability in the New Member States
Cihák, Martin; Fonteyne, Wim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
The proximity of the European Union, the prospect of membership, and actual entry by the New Member States (NMS) increased economic and financial integration in the region, leading to fast economic growth based on sizeable capital inflows. EU membership helped in developing sound macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825949
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Exports, Inflation, and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1997
World Bank, covering 160 countries in the period 1985-1994. First, the linkages between the propensity to export and … population, per capita income, agriculture, primary exports, and inflation are studied by statistical methods. Then, the … same way. The main conclusion is that, in the period under review, high inflation and an abundance of natural resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826026
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Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghura, Dhaneshwar; Basu, Anupam; Calamitsis, Evangelos A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999
This paper analyzes the factors affecting economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, using data for 1981–97. The results indicate that per capita real GDP growth is positively influenced by economic policies that raise the ratio of private investment to GDP, promote human capital development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826029
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Brazil's Long-Term Growth Performance; Trying to Explain the Puzzle
Adrogué, Ricardo; Cerisola, Martin; Gelos, Gaston - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation techniques, building on the vast empirical literature on growth. The empirical evidence presented in this paper confirms that macroeconomic stability and several reforms have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826652