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Tax Administration Reform in the Francophone Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Fossat, Patrick; Bua, Michel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

conditions for successful modernization of the tax administration shows that significant changes are needed to ensure better …

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Customs Administration Reform and Modernization in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995â€“2010

Montagnat-Rentier, Gilles; Parent, Gilles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper outlines reforms that have been achieved in the modernization of the customs administrations of francophone … collection and improve trade facilitation in a number of countries. However, the pace and scope of modernization remains … accelerate the modernization of customs in francophone sub-Saharan Africa. …

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Export Quality in Developing Countries

Henn, Christian; Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nicola - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with quality convergence largely completed as a country reaches upper...

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Managing Financial Crises; Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America

Kincaid, G. Russell; Collyns, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMFâ€™s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...

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Transparency and International Investor Behavior

Wei, Shang-Jin; Gelos, Gaston - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Does country "transparency" affect international portfolio investment? We examine this and related questions using a unique micro dataset on international portfolio holdings. We employ various indices of government and corporate transparency, focusing on the availability and quality of...

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Availability of Financial Soundness Indicators

Slack, Graham L. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Because the wave of financial crises in recent years has spurred analysts' and policymakers' interest in monitoring the vulnerabilities of financial systems, the need for supporting data has increased. This paper presents survey results on the collection, compilation, and dissemination of data...

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Too Much of a Good Thing? Credit Booms in Transition Economies; The Cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine

Duenwald, Christoph; Gueorguiev, Nikolay; Schaechter, Andrea - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Rapid credit growth in Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine has been driven by successful macroeconomic stabilization, robust growth, and capital inflows. While financial deepening is both expected and welcome, the recent expansions appear to have been excessive, as evidenced by widening current...

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Monitoring Systemic Risk Based on Dynamic Thresholds

Lund-Jensen, Kasper - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Successful implementation of macroprudential policy is contingent on the ability to identify and estimate systemic risk in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and this conditional probability is modeled in a fixed effect...

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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs; An Application to Slovakia

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term … competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy … advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of competitiveness in terms of exchange rate misalignment can be biased …

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The Trade Impact of China on EMU; Is It Even Across Members?

Ruiz, Esther Pérez; Mikkelsen, Uffe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area …

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