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Seductions of An Underdevelopment Trap; Systemic Impediments to Agricultural Reform in Russia

Gershenson, Dmitry; Amelina, Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Despite ambitious agricultural reforms initiated by the federal government, inefficient and unprofitable producers predominate in post-Soviet Russia. However, in some regions a more robust restructuring has taken place. Observing two Russian regions-one with substantially restructured...

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The Effects of Exchange Rate Change on the Trade Balance in Croatia

Stucka, Tihomir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

A reduced-form model approach was used to estimate the trade balance response to permanent domestic currency depreciation. For this purpose, long-run and short-run effects were estimated, using three modeling methods along with two real effective exchange rate measures. On average, a 1 percent...

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Thailand; Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This paper provides the IMF's projections and estimates of Thailand on basic data; summary of the central and local government tax systems, May 2003; portfolio investment liabilities, debt securities; other liabilities, trade credits, and loans; external debt stocks and flows by creditor group and...

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Nepal; Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This Statistical Appendix paper for the periods between 1996/97 and 2001/02 for Nepal discusses both nominal and real gross domestic product by sector; savings and investments; agricultural production and yields; Manufacturing Production Indices; energy consumption; tourism indicators; Consumer...

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Wage Gaps and Development; Lessons From U.S. History

Mourmouras, Alex; Rangazas, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

century US. Consequently, the reallocation of labor from farming to industry raised the average annual growth rate of output …

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Tax Farming; A Radical Solution for Developing Country Tax Problems?

Stella, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

proposed solution is tax farming. Tax farming is a system wherein the right to collect taxes is auctioned off to the highest … bidder. An analysis of the historical experience with tax farming shows that its purported administrative efficiency is … farming would appear to have little attraction for a modern state concerned with justice and equity. …

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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment; A Review and Synthesis

Miranda, Kenneth M.; Parry, Ian W.H.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993

Commonly cited environmental instruments in the legal, regulatory, and fiscal domains are intended primarily to address market failures to ensure that environmental degradation and resource use is contained to appropriate levels. However, in many instances, environmental degradation is rooted...

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Subsidy Reforms and Poverty Alleviation

Bhambhri, Chandra Prakash; Chander, Parkash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper presents a general framework for characterizing the optimal pattern of subsidies for poverty alleviation under budgetary constraints and suggests possible reforms for the existing pattern of subsidies. The government may subsidize or tax goods in order to meet its objectives. The...

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Real and Distributive Effects of Petroleum Price Liberalization; The Case of Indonesia

Clements, Benedict J.; Gupta, Sanjeev; Jung, Hong-Sang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

within a multisector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. A reduction in the government subsidy raises petroleum … will be the most significantly affected by the subsidy reduction. …

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Iran; The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform

Guillaume, Dominique M.; Zytek, Roman; Farzin, Mohammad Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

On December 18, 2010, Iran increased domestic energy and agricultural prices by up to 20 times, making it the first major oil-exporting country to reduce substantially implicit energy subsidies. This paper reviews the economic and technical issues involved in the planning and early...

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