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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
, to end dependence on food aid, and to allow poor people to benefit from economic growth. It also assesses the challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591421
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Rural Poverty in Developing Countries; Issues and Policies
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for reducing poverty, taking into account the functional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605040
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Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing; Evidence From Global Food Aid
Tiongson, Erwin; Clements, Benedict J.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Global food aid is considered a critical consumption smoothing mechanism in many countries. However, its record of … stabilizing consumption has been mixed. This paper examines the cyclical properties of food aid with respect to food availability … transition economies, covering 1970 to 2000. The results show that global food aid has been allocated to countries most in need …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605154
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What Explains the Rise in Food Price Volatility?
Roache, Shaun K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The macroeconomic effects of large food price swings can be broad and far-reaching, including the balance of payments … food commodity spot prices using the spline- GARCH approach. It finds that low frequency volatility is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560434
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah; Bruckner, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict … increases in the international food prices lead to a significant deterioration of democratic institutions and a significant … in the international food prices have no significant effects on democratic institutions and measures of intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876604
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Nicaragua; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Progress Report on National Human Development Plan as of 2010
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper reports on progress made on Nicaragua’s National Human Development Plan as of 2010. The operational goal for Nicaragua’s National Human Development Plan is economic growth with increased employment and reduced inequality and poverty. The results for 2007–10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244377
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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
Mishra, Prachi; Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263794
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Reforming Government Subsidies in the New Member States of the European Union
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex; Koranchelian, Taline; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Subsidy reform has been a key component of the pre-accession reform agenda of the 10 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EU-10). During the pre-accession period, these countries had to undertake a number of important structural reforms in their economies. One of the most critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263811
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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769302
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Hungary; An Economic Survey
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1982
This paper presents an overview of the economy of Hungary. The paper highlights that during the Fifth Five-Year Plan (1976–80), actual growth rates for almost all major plan aggregates remained below the targets. The lower targets set for the increase in both consumption and investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590940