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Mexico; Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
buffer against risks that erupted during the global economic crisis. Mexico has been identified as a prudent and fairly well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242784
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Income and Democracy; Lipset's Law Revisited
Hoeffler, Anke; Bates, Robert H.; Fayad, Ghada - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita hinder/trigger democratization. Decomposing overall income per capita into its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242229
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Breaking the Curse of Sisyphus; An Empirical Analysis of Post-Conflict Economic Transitions
Cevik, Serhan; Rahmati, Mohammad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper provides a broad empirical analysis of the determinants of post-conflict economic transitions across the world during the period 1960–2010, using a dynamic panel estimation approach based on the system-generalized method of moments. In addition to an array of demographic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242246
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The Macroprudential Framework; Policy Responsiveness and Institutional Arrangements
Lim, Cheng Hoon; Krznar, Ivo; Lipinsky, Fabian; Otani, Akira - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper gauges if, and how, institutional arrangements are correlated with the use of macroprudential policy instruments. Using data from 39 countries, the paper evaluates policy response time in various types of institutional arrangements for macroprudential policy and finds that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242316
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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142081
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Institutional Models for Macroprudential Policy
Nier, Erlend; Jácome, Luis Ignacio; Osinski, Jacek; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142223
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Bangladesh; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the surprising strength of remittances in Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia and the Philippines in 2009. The empirical analysis suggests that the continued strong growth of remittances in these countries is related to the resilience of non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245440
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Emigration and Brain Drain; Evidence From the Caribbean
Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … in 2002. Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248304
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Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? T+L3886he Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows
Ilahi, Nadeem; Shendy, Riham - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263780
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Business Cycles and Workers' Remittances; How Do Migrant Workers Respond to Cyclical Movements of GDP At Home?
Sayan, Serdar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries since migrant workers are expected to remit more during down cycles of economic activity back home. Yet, how much to remit is a complex decision involving other factors, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263962