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Assessing Countries’ Financial Inclusion Standing - A New Composite Index
Goran Amidžić; Massara, Alexander; Mialou, André - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper leverages the IMF’s Financial Access Survey (FAS) database to construct a new composite index of financial … composite index uses factor analysis to derive a weighting methodology whose absence has been the most persistent of the … criticisms of previous indices. Countries are then ranked based on the new composite index, providing an additional analytical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142035
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123871
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Dominica; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244873
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What Attracts tourists to Paradise?
Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly affected by economic developments in the source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769110
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Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the competitive threats to the tourism sector in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). The paper concludes that the ECCU countries have lost competitiveness globally and vis-à-vis newly emergent Caribbean tourist destinations as a result of both price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591118
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Republic of Mozambique; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Annual Progress Report: Review of the Economic and Social Plan for 2007
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Annual Progress Report reviews the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Economic and Social Plan for 2007 for Mozambique. The report presents the new simplified structure adopted in the Review of the First Half of 2007. In the international context, the evolution of the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244337
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Guinea-Bissau; Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper presents the Joint Staff Advisory Note on Guinea-Bissau’s Second National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP II) covering 2011–15. The PRSP II, adopted by the government in July 2011, provides the framework for the implementation of a comprehensive strategy aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244799
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Union of the Comoros; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Union of the Comoros’s Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRGS) paper reports that the government’s macroeconomic objectives under the PRGS framework entail preserving major economic equilibria. To increase control over government spending, the government intends to reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244800
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Burkina Faso; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244817
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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Growth and Transformation Plan 2010/11-2014/15: Volume I
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244884