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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This report assesses the Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Program (SDPRP), which is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Ethiopia. It reviews the fundamental development objectives of the SDPRP to build a free-market economic...
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 in recipient countries, with a view to assessing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605154
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Food Prices and Political Instability
Arezki, Rabah; Bruckner, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries … increase in the incidence of anti-government demonstrations, riots, and civil conflict. In the High Income Countries variations …-state conflict. Our empirical results point to a significant externality of variations in international food prices on Low Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876604
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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 of importers and exporters, budgets, inflation, and poverty. For market participants and policymakers, managing low frequency volatility—i.e., the component of volatility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560434
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Benin; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—2005 Progress Report
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) was developed based on a long participatory process based on an institutional mechanism involving all socioeconomic development actors in the country. The annual review of the PRSP seeks to assess the results achieved in the implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245136
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Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk
Roca, Mauro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model calibrated to the U.S. shows that market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528693
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Czech Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal reform of the Czech Republic, its key reform measures, and structural implications. The study also focuses on key challenges and demographic pressures facing the Czech economy, and describes the analytical framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242637
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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Rebalancing and Inclusive Growth in China
Lee, Il Houng; Syed, Murtaza H.; Wang, Xin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790266
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Growing (Un)equal: Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality in China and BRIC+
Cevik, Serhan; Correa-Caro, Carolina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
This paper investigates the empirical characteristics of income inequality in China and a panel of BRIC+ countries over …€”an inverted Ushaped relationship between income inequality and economic development—in China and the panel of BRIC+ countries …. In the case of China, the empirical results indicate that government spending and taxation have opposing effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242236