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Dollarization and Maturity Structure of Public Securities : The Experience of Bolivia

Vesperoni, Esteban - 2008

The public debt profile has improved in Bolivia in recent years, with regard to both the maturity structure and the … currency composition. This paper analyzes changes in the public debt profile in Bolivia since 2000, and the role played by … incompleteness. We also compare the debt profile of Bolivia with those of other countries in Latin America, and find that there is …

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Bolivia : The Hydrocarbons Boom and the Risk of Dutch Disease

Cerutti, Eugenio - 2008

the possibility of a new case of "Dutch disease." While Bolivia's economy has already seen many benefits from its higher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409037

Public Investment as an Engine of Growth

Warner, Andrew M. - 2014

This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...

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Magnitude and Distribution of Fuel Subsidies : Evidence from Bolivia, Ghana, Jordan, Mali, and Sri Lanka

Kpodar, Kangni - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MAGNITUDE, FINANCING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONSUMER SUBSIDIES -- III. COUNTRY CASE STUDIES -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX I. IDENTIFYING MAGNITUDE AND FINANCING OF FUEL SUBSIDIES -- APPENDIX II. EVALUATING SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION OF REAL INCOME...

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Bolivia : The Hydrocarbons Boom and the Risk of Dutch Disease

Cerutti, Eugenio - 2008

the possibility of a new case of "Dutch disease." While Bolivia's economy has already seen many benefits from its higher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012685001

Mauritius

Minoiu, Camelia - 2008

We assess the competitiveness of Mauritius in recent years using two approaches. First, we estimate the difference between the equilibrium and the actual real exchange rate using four methods: the macroeconomic balance approach, the single-equation fundamentals approach, the capital-enhanced...

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The Gambia

Sriram, Subramanian S. - 2009

This paper evaluates the demand for broad money (M2) in The Gambia for January 1988-June 2007. There appears to be a long-run relationship for demand for real M2, but the relationship is not stable. Exogenous output shocks, financial innovation, changes in income velocity, and inadequate data...

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Identifying Binding Constraints to Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?

Vargas, Mauricio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

categorical endogenous regressor to estimate, for the case of Bolivia, the conditional probability of facing obstacles given the …

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Public Investment as an Engine of Growth

Warner, Andrew M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

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Can a Rule-Based Monetary Policy Framework Work in a Developing Country? the Case of Yemen

Elekdag, Selim; Ltaifa, Nabil Ben; Schneider, Todd; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Monetary policy in Yemen is largely rudimentary and ad hoc in nature. The Central Bank of Yemen's (CBY) approach has been based on discretionary targeting of broad money without any clear target to anchor inflation expectations. This paper argues in favor of a new formal monetary policy...

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