Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 201
Cover Image
The Pacific Speed of Growth; How Fast Can It Be and What Determines It?
Yang, Yongzheng; Chen, Hong; Singh, Shiu raj; Singh, Baljeet - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
lower investment and exports compared with other small island states, but greater political stability, catch-up effects from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242206
Cover Image
Labor Market Issues in the Caribbean: Scope to Mobilize Employment Growth
Kandil, Magda E.; Lindow, Genevieve; Mansilla, Mario; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth … to major sources of labor market determinants, in the long and short run. The main determinants of employment include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010800970
Cover Image
Why Does Fdi Go Where it Goes? New Evidence From the Transition Economies
Kinoshita, Yuko; Campos, Nauro F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-a-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a unique panel data set for 25 transition economies between 1990 and 1998, we find that the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263716
Cover Image
Trade, Growth, and Poverty; A Selective Survey
Berg, Andrew; Krueger, Anne O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263804
Cover Image
Reforming Government Subsidies in the New Member States of the European Union
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex; Koranchelian, Taline; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Subsidy reform has been a key component of the pre-accession reform agenda of the 10 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EU-10). During the pre-accession period, these countries had to undertake a number of important structural reforms in their economies. One of the most critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263811
Cover Image
Armenia; The Road to Sustained Rapid Growth-Cross-Country Evidence
Iradian, Garbis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This study examines the growth determinants and the economic policy challenges that Armenia faces to sustain the rapid growth of the past two years. The paper also seeks to answer the following two questions: Why has Armenia performed relatively better than other transition economies? What are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263869
Cover Image
The Impact of Tradeon Wages; What If Countries Are Not Small?
Tokutsu, Ichiro; Saito, Mika - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
existing tariffs under the assumption that each member country is large enough to affect the prices of goods and services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263956
Cover Image
Trade Creation and Diversion Revisited; Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Natural Trading Partner Effects
Papageorgiou, Chris; Henn, Christian; Eicher, Theo S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263980
Cover Image
Dynamic Gains From Trade; Evidence From South Africa
Subramanian, Arvind; Jonsson, Gunnar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
exports in GDP, and (ii) a cross sectional approach, where trade is defined in terms of trade policy, i.e., as actual trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264046
Cover Image
The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-19+L69390: A Survey
Greene, Joshua E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264058