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This Selected Issues paper studies the inefficiencies related to the electricity sector and assesses the potential impact of the 2019 reform plan. Electricity shortages are the second constraint to competitiveness reported by businesses in Lebanon, based on the Enterprise Survey conducted by the...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes France's fiscal stance using a structural stochastic model. The theoretical model features a forward-looking benevolent government that needs to decide the optimal fiscal stance given the level of public debt, the cyclical position of the economy, and...
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The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is a joint publication of six agencies:- the UN, EC, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, and WTO. It addresses a growing demand from governments, businesses and analysts for more relevant, detailed and internationally comparable statistics on services...
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Singapore entered the COVID-19 pandemic with sizable policy space and robust economic policy frameworks, yet facing …
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This 2017 Article IV Consultation highlights that Singapore's economic growth momentum has improved since late 2016 … subdued. Labor market conditions have softened with two consecutive years of weak net employment generation. Singapore …
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This paper outlines that the banking sector remains healthy, backed by high capital, liquidity, provisioning and profitability ratios. Sector-wide nonperforming loans (NPLs) have increased slightly (to 2 percent in 2017:Q1), due largely to stresses in the Oil and Gas (O and G) services sector....
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This Selected Issues paper develops a new calibrated model of the Singapore economy, the Singapore Global Policy MODel … to illustrate the role of the monetary policy responses of Singapore's monetary authority following a variety of domestic … rate markets, exacerbating the negative effects from Singapore's transmission mechanism and its reliance on the uncovered …
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This 2016 Article IV Consultation highlights that Singapore's economy continues to perform well despite being hit by a …
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