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Sustaining Growth, Maintaining Macroeconomic Stability : Lao PDR Economic Monitor, June 2013
World Bank - 2014
The Lao economy is projected to grow at 8 percent in 2013. The hydropower sector (both completed projects in operation and projects in the construction or development phase), construction, food processing, and services sectors remain the major contributors to this growth. Overall inflation has...
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Russia : Subnational Governments' Fiscal Response to the Economic Downturn
World Bank - 2016
The aim of this note is to present and analyze subnational fiscal trends in Russia in the context of overall slowing economic growth and falling oil prices over the last few years. In particular, in 2015, GDP fell by 3.7 percent. Despite efforts to cut expenditures, the federal deficit increased...
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Financial dollarization and central bank credibility
Cowan, Kevin - 2003
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Latvia's macroeconomic options in the medium term : fiscal and monetary challenges of European Union membership
Monga, Célestin - 2004
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African Financial Sectors and the European Debt Crisis : Will Trouble Blow across the Sahara?
World Bank - 2013
The exposure of African financial sectors to global risks, including the likely fall-out of the on-going European debt crisis, continues to be limited. African financial sectors have received much recognition for their steady growth performance and resilience during and after the 2008 global...
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Optimal devaluations
Hevia, Constantino - 2009
"According to the conventional wisdom, when an economy enters a recession and nominal prices adjust slowly, the monetary authority should devalue the domestic currency to make the recession less severe. The reason is that a devaluation of the currency lowers the relative price of non-tradable...
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Trade blocs
2000
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Expanding the measure of wealth : indicators of environmentally sustainable development
1997
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Democracy, credibility, and clientelism
Keefer, Philip - 2005
. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill … commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are …-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the …
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Economic liberalization and stabilization policies in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay : applications of the monetary approach to the balance of payments
Ardito Barletta, Nicolás (contributor);  … - 1983
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