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International RandD Spillovers
Helpman, Elhanan - 1993
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395947
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Investing in public investment : an index of public investment efficiency
Dabla-Norris, Era; Brumby, Jim; Kyobe, Annette; Mills, Zac - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487110
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Efficiency and Legitimacy : Trade-Offs in IMF Governance
Cottarelli, Carlo - 2005
its operational efficiency. Potential trade-offs between legitimacy and efficiency exist for any public institution but … legitimacy and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400744
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Determinants of Government Efficiency
Hauner, David - 2008
We compile the first large cross-country panel dataset of public sector performance and efficiency, encompassing 114 … lower efficiency in the respective sector. Moreover, we find that richer countries exhibit better public sector performance … and efficiency, and that institutional and demographic factors also play a significant role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401855
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Investing in Public Investment : An Index of Public Investment Efficiency
Mills, Zac - 2011
This paper introduces a new index that captures the institutional environment underpinning public investment management across four different stages: project appraisal, selection, implementation, and evaluation. Covering 71 countries, including 40 low-income countries, the index allows for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402638
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Linkages Between Financial Variables, Financial Sector Reform and Economic Growth and Efficiency
Johnston, R. B. - 1995
economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395836
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Experience with Floating Interbank Exchange Rate Systems in Five Developing Economies
Galbis, Vicente - 1993
--The Gambia, Guyana, Jamaica, Nigeria and Sri Lanka--and draws some conclusions about the stability and efficiency of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396334
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Some Aspects of Petroleum Product Price Adjustment in the Context of Fund Programs, 1980-1982
International Monetary Fund - 1987
This paper reviews adjustment in oil imports and domestic pricing policies affecting petroleum under Fund-supported programs. The adjustment of countries with Fund-supported programs (during 1980–82) following the two oil price shocks is compared with that of the nonprogram countries, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396481
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Assessing Competitiveness and Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Low-Income Countries
Lewis, Mark - 2007
Assessing a country''s competitiveness routinely starts with an analysis of the real exchange rate. However, in low-income countries, empirical analysis of the real exchange rate is often subject to important limitations that seriously weaken the results. This paper summarizes the methodologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399528
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Fiscal decentralization and the efficiency of public service delivery
Sow, Moussé Ndoye; Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281949