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Economic Growth and Integration in Central America
Schipke, Alfred; Desruelle, Dominique - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
system development, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, and ways to sustain progress in reducing inflation by strengthening the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590924
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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142122
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Rwanda; Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, and Modificati...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
macroeconomic challenges. Indicative limits on domestic debt have been established. If these limits are exceeded or inflation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244847
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India; 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for India
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
India’s strong growth and macroeconomic stability is owed to its sound macroeconomic policies and past structural reforms. Swelling capital inflows have highlighted the key policy challenges: managing financial globalization and tackling the supply constraints to growth. Monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244987
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Bangladesh; Financial System Stability Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper reports on Bangladesh’s Financial System Stability Assessment. Considerable progress has been made in strengthening the resilience of the country's financial sector. Total assets of the banking sector have increased twofold since 2003, and credit to the private sector has risen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245298
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How Private Creditors Fared in Emerging Debt Markets, 1970-2000
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin; Weder, Beatrice; Klingen, Christoph - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
We estimate ex post returns to emerging market debt by combining secondary-market prices with observed flows based on World Bank data. From 1970-2000, returns averaged 9 percent per annum, about the same as returns on a ten-year U.S. treasury bond. This reflects the combined effect of the 1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264003
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Public Debt Markets in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic
Jobst, Andreas; Valderrama, Laura; Guerra, Ivan; Shah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper-consisting of a regional study and seven country studies-reviews the state of domestic public debt markets in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as at end-2005. Although they account for the lion's share of capital markets, regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825635
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Haircuts; Estimating Investor Losses in Sovereign Debt Restructurings, 1998-2005
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin; Sturzenegger, Federico - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper estimates bond-by-bond "haircuts"-realized investor losses-in recent debt restructurings in Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay. We consider both external and domestic retructurings. Haircuts are computed as the percentage difference between the present values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825806
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Rwanda; Third Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion-Staff Report;...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The main risk to the program is that inflationary pressures would reemerge owing to improper management of the scaling up of aid and fiscal spending, or a protracted crisis in Kenya. The structural agenda focuses on maintaining the momentum in the previously initiated areas, particularly in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242768
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; 2007 Article IV Consultation and Third Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Wai...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
in reducing inflation and safeguarding external stability, but it needs to be strengthened. The government should resist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242878