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Belgium; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
Belgium has effected a remarkable fiscal adjustment, best illustrated by the decline in its public debt. While benefiting from an appreciable decline in interest rates, most of the underlying consolidation reflected a considerable increase in the tax burden, one of the highest in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768647
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604960
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Luxembourg; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper on Luxembourg reports that exemplary high growth rates and prudent fiscal policies provided the financial basis for the welfare system. Social expenditures in per capita terms, even adjusted for the large number of cross-border workers, rank highest among European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244141
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Unemployment and Structural Unemployment in the Baltics
Ebeke, Christian; Everaert, Greetje - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
While the unemployment rate in the Baltics has fallen sharply from its crisis-peaks, it remains close to double digits. This paper estimates the structural component of the jobless rate in the three Baltic countries and analyzes its causes. Our main findings are that the current still elevated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959461
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Baltic Cluster Report: 2014 Cluster Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Baltic Countries
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
€”Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It identifies common features and common challenges, and discusses policies—both national and jointâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244182
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Republic of Lithuania: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper focuses on sustainability of public finances and low inflation in Lithuania. Lithuania aims … to adopt the euro in 2015. Over the medium term, inflation in Lithuania will likely run somewhat higher than in the euro … favorable, and Lithuania has demonstrated the ability to deliver adjustment when needed without recourse to exchange rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244839
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Baltic Cluster Report: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper focuses on the Baltic model, Baltic–Nordic links, and convergence. The Baltic countries form a distinct group within a tightly integrated Nordic–Baltic region. They are following similar approaches to economic policy, broadly in line with those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244869
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Republic of Lithuania: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Lithuania
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Lithuania’s economy has entered a broadly favorable trajectory of healthy and balanced growth, but income convergence with Western Europe has a long way to go. With inflation at historical lows and well-advanced repair of public finances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244988
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Republic of Lithuania: 2013 Article IV Consultation; Staff Report, Information Annex, Public Information Notice, Statement by the Executive Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
macroeconomic growth in Lithuania. The IMF report discusses the requirement of fiscal consolidation to fully rebuild fiscal space …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245185
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Agricultural Credit in the Baltics, Russia, and Other States of the Former Soviet Union
Sobolev, Yuri Vladimirovich; Lahiri, Ashok - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264258