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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654140
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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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On the extrapolation with the Denton proportional benchmarking method
Di Fonzo, Tommaso; Marini, Marco - 2012
Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA …). Benchmarking methods employ quarterly indicator series (i) to distribute annual, more reliable series of national accounts and (ii …) benchmarking method proposed by Denton (1971) is a widely used solution for distribution, but in extrapolation it may suffer when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618495
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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
this framework using a benchmarking exercise, which relates the difference between the actual level of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790428
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Elasticity Optimism
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677518
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Pacific Island Countries: In Search of a Trade Strategy
Chen, Hong; Rauqeuqe, Lanieta; Singh, Shiu raj; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
International trade is vital for economic prosperity in Pacific island countries, but their trade performance has been weak over the past decade with the exception of resource-rich countries. Small country size and remoteness from global economic centers may have contributed to this relatively...
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When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries, including the initial conditions, institutional changes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248163
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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders; Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?
Krishna, Kala; Tan, Ling Hui - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper considers the effects of trade policy-tariffs and quotas-when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248181
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Trade and Domestic Financial Market Reform Under Political Uncertainty; Implications for Investment, Savings, and the Real Exchange Rate
Bhattacharya, Rina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper presents a model that incorporates uncertainty about trade reform and analyzes the effects of trade and financial liberalization on domestic investment and savings, the current account balance and the real exchange rate, both when the capital account is open and when it is closed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248185
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Do Unit Value Export, Import, and Terms of Trade Indices Represent or Misrepresent Price Indices?
Silver, Mick - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Unit value export and import indices compiled from returns to customs authorities are often used as surrogates for price indices in the measurement of inflation transmission, terms of trade (effects), and to deflate import and export value series to derive volume series. Their widespread use is...
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