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Privatization and Public Enterprises
Hemming, Richard; Mansoor, Ali M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590918
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Greece; Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement: Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Greece.
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
A very ambitious fiscal adjustment effort is under way. Fiscal institutional and sectoral reforms have been elaborated for a more durable adjustment. Greece’s determination toward a comprehensive modernization of the health sector, beginning with a far-reaching reform of state enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244162
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Financial Markets and Public Finance in the Transformation Process
Tanzi, Vito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
The paper surveys the role of financial markets and fiscal institutions in the transformation process going on in Eastern and Central Europe. It highlights (a) the need to create some sort of “social ecological balance” necessary for the working of a modern market economy; (b) the need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264034
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Romania; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper for Romania reports that the practice of nonpayment and arrears accumulation has been widespread in Romania. Managers of enterprises that remain in the pipeline for privatization for long periods of time have little incentive to reduce arrears. The state contributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591456
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Republic of Belarus; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
economy, and presents an overview of economic benefits of deregulation, labor market liberalization, and enterprise reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245717
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Romania; Fourth Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria—Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussio...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
Romania's macroeconomic performance remains broadly in line with the program, but the recent strengthening of domestic demand and nonobservance of four performance criteria require corrective measures. Discussions on policies for 2003 took place in the context of increasing risks stemming from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252787
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State-Owned Banks, Stability, Privatization, and Growth; Practical Policy Decisions in a World without Empirical Proof
Andrews, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector crises. Data on privatizations in over 65 countries is used together with data from the banking crisis literature to consider the relationship between state-owned banks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769003
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Romania; Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This paper assesses Romania’s Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and a Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion. Romania’s macroeconomic performance continued to be favorable, but slippages in wage policy and privatization delayed the completion of the third review....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591732
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Mexico; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper is a wide-ranging survey of the conditions for, and obstacles to, the growth in Mexico. It frames the issue of Mexico’s growth record, and presents the paper’s prior assumptions and approach. It highlights the main observations and conclusions emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245707
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Competition and Firm Productivity; Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Schiffbauer, Marc; Ospina, Sandra - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations … competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more … pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470387