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Chad; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245496
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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries … economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248163
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Inequality, Poverty, and Growth; Cross-Country Evidence
Iradian, Garbis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263901
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Analysis of Recent Growth in Low-Income Cis Countries
Loukoianova, Elena; Unigovskaya, Anna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper analyzes factors that determine recent economic growth in the low-income countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.2 The main findings are as follows: (1) productivity gains in export-oriented sectors and expansion of exports may have become the main sources of growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263670
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Explaining Russia's Output Collapse; Aggregate Sources and Regional Evidence
Dolinskaya, Irina; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper explores sources of the output collapse in Russia during transition. A modified growth accounting framework is developed that takes into account changes in factor utilization typical of the transition process. The results indicate that declines in factor inputs and productivity were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826009
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Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghura, Dhaneshwar; Basu, Anupam; Calamitsis, Evangelos A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999
reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826029
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Japan; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper analyzes the key features of the Japanese business cycle, and investigates whether the current recovery differs from past recoveries. In particular, this paper poses the following questions: what are the main characteristics of Japanese business cycles since 1980, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768608
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Honduras's Growth Performance During 1970-1997
Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999
For more than three decades, Honduras’s average annual growth in real per capita GDP has been almost zero and highly uneven, even though its total investment-to-GDP ratio has been relatively large. This paper argues that policy and efficiency variables seem to have had less of an influence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771372
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Beyond the Crisis; Revisiting Emerging Europe's Growth Model
Atoyan, Ruben - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Focusing on the nexus between economic growth and buildup of external vulnerabilities, this paper provides a systematic account of different growth strategies followed in Central and Eastern Europe in 2000-08 and then uses this growth diagnostics to derive implications for the post-crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470383
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Vietnam; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This report analyzes the Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS), the poverty reduction strategy … individual sectors, and social achievements in poverty reduction. It analyzes the policy implementation, macroeconomic stability …, administration reforms, modern governance, and challenges and measures in poverty reduction and growth. It provides details of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005598834