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Distributional implications of labor market reforms : learning from Spain's experience

Stepanyan, Ara; Salas, Jorge - 2020

Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create...

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Treasury Reform in Kazakhstan : Lessons for Other Countries

Tandberg, E. - 2002

reform process, and partly to the institutional design of the Kazakh treasury. Some design features are common for most well …

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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of structural reforms in Ukraine

Ari, Anil; Pula, Gábor - 2021

a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …

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How to gain the most from structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs

Andritzky, Jochen; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa; Wang, Ke - 2021

Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...

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Revisiting the potential impact to the rest of the Caribbean from opening US-Cuba tourism

Acevedo, Sebastian; Alleyne, Trevor; Romeu, Rafael - 2017

The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism sector in the Caribbean … towards a change in US travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted. The history of tourism in the region … that liberalizing US-Cuba tourism could result in US arrivals to Cuba of between 3 and 5.6 million, most of it coming from …

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Recession and policy transmission to Latin American tourism : does expanded travel to Cuba offset crisis spillovers?

Romeu, Rafael; Wolfe, Andy - 2011

This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...

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Recession and Policy Transmission to Latin American tourism : Does Expanded Travel to Cuba offset Crisis Spillovers?

Wolfe, Andrew M. - 2011

easing of restrictions on U.S. travel to Cuba, supported a small (countercyclical) boost to Cuba’s arrivals of U.S. non …-family travel, as well as a pre-existing surge in family travel (of Cuban origin). Despite the US becoming Cuba’s second highest …

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The Fall and Recovery of the Cuban Economy in the 1990's : Mirage or Reality?

Hernández-Catá, Ernesto - 2001

The collapse of the Cuban economy following the cessation of Soviet assistance gave way to a strong recovery in 1994-96. There are three possible explanations for this recovery: (i) that it never took place; (ii) that it reflected a surge in productivity resulting from stabilization and...

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Macroeconomic effects of Japan's demographics : can structural reforms reverse them?

Colacelli, Mariana; Fernandez Corugedo, Emilio - 2018

substantially to stabilizing public debt. Alternatively, implementation of a fully-credible structural reform program can contribute …

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Assessing the macroeconomic impact of structural reforms in Chile

Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2018

This study investigates the likely macroeconomic impact of various structural reforms that align the Chilean regulatory framework with international best practices. In this context, the analysis: i) presents a comparison across a large set of structural indicators; ii) identifies policy gaps...

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