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Financial Integration in Asia; Recent Developments and Next Steps

Teo, Leslie; Cowen, David; Shah, Hemant; Salgado, Ranil; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This Working Paper brings together three papers prepared as background for discussions at the Second High-Level Conference on Asian Integration cohosted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the IMF on May 25, 2006. The first documents recent trends in the intraregional flow of goods and...

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Investment-Led Growth in China; Global Spillovers

Ahuja, Ashvin; Nabar, Malhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers … from an investment slowdown in China. It finds that a one percentage point slowdown in investment in China is associated … vulnerable to an investment slowdown in China. The spillover effects also register strongly across a range of macroeconomic …

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China's Economic Growth; International Spillovers

Vamvakidis, Athanasios; Arora, Vivek B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper presents some facts on Chinaâ€™s role in the world economy and measures the impact of Chinaâ€™s growth on growth in the rest of the world in the short and long term. Short-run estimates based on VARs and error-correction models suggest that spillover effects of...

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Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries of the European Union

Abiad, Abdul; Mody, Ashoka; Schadler, Susan; Leigh, Daniel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The central challenges facing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia as they work to catch up to advanced European Union (EU) income levels are discussed in this new book. Focusing on the regionâ€™s growth performance, and outlining two...

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Ghana; Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

The statistical data on gross domestic product, cocoa bean production, payments to farmers, and export receipts, operations of the cocoa board, production, acreage, and yield of principal food crops, domestic fish catch and imports, mineral production, generation and consumption of electricity...

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Chad; Statistical Annex

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1997

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

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U.S. Tax Reform; An Overview of the Current Debate and Policy Options

Dalsgaard, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In the context of the current tax policy debate in the United States, this paper reviews and discusses some of the main recurrent themes, as well as some of the most important tax reform proposals put forward over the past two decades. It finds that although there seems to be widespread...

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VIVAT, CVAT and All That; New Forms of Value-Added Tax for Federal Systems

Keen, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

Conventional wisdom has it that the value-added tax is not a suitable instrument for lower-level jurisdictions (‘provinces’) in a federal system. The problems that arise when it is so used have become a serious constraint on the development of the VAT—and closer economic integration—in...

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Harmonization of Domestic Consumption Taxes in Central and Western African Countries

Doe, Lubin Kobla - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper examines the reform of the main domestic consumption taxes initiated by the CEMAC and the WAEMU aimed at reinforcing their economic integration. On the whole, compliance with the VAT is relatively weaker in the CEMAC than in the WAEMU. The opposite applies for excises. Major reforms...

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Tax Reform and Debt Sustainability in Germany; An Assessment Using the Global Fiscal Model

Botman, Dennis P. J.; Danninger, Stephan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

In 2005, the German government announced a far-reaching fiscal adjustment program. This paper uses the IMF’s Global Fiscal Model to study its impact and explores options for addressing long-term pressures from population aging. The growth effects of the planned VAT increase are likely modest,...

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