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Striking an appropriate balance among public investment, growth, and debt sustainability in Cape Verde

Mu, Yibin - 2012

Despite relatively fast economic growth over the past few years, Cape Verde’s public debt to GDP ratio has risenrapidly. Achieving an appropriate balance among public investment, growth, and debt sustainability has become a priority for the Cape Verdean authorities. The IMF-World Bank debt...

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Foreign Exchange Queues, Informal Traders, and a Zero Premium in the Black Market : A Cape Verdean Puzzle

Olters, Jan-Peter - 1999

During 1996–98, several indicators hinted at the apparent unsustainability of Cape Verde’s exchange rate peg. The country, faced with a considerable backlog of approved but unmet applications for foreign currencies, tolerated a parallel market. Street traders, however, demanded only...

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Determinants of Emigrant Deposits in Cape Verde

International Monetary Fund - 2006

In the last decade Cape Verde has experienced a strong accumulation of emigrant deposits. These deposits have provided much needed foreign exchange to the country, adding support to the exchange rate peg. This paper studies the long-run determinants of emigrant deposits with respect to risk,...

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Introducing the Euro As Legal Tender : Benefits and Costs of Eurorization for Cape Verde

Imam, Patrick A. - 2009

In recent years, recommendations for countries to unilaterally dollarize/eurorize have become common, particularly when the countries lack economic credibility. After exploring the characteristics of dollarizing/eurorizing economies, we look at the merits and costs of unilateral eurorization for...

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Spatial dependence and data-driven networks of international banks

Craig, Ben R.; Saldías, Martín - 2016

This paper computes data-driven correlation networks based on the stock returns of international banks and conducts a comprehensive analysis of their topological properties. We first apply spatial-dependence methods to filter the effects of strong common factors and a thresholding procedure to...

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Spatial spillovers in emerging market spreads

Baldacci, Emanuele; Dell'Erba, Salvatore; Poghosyan, Tigran - 2011

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Cross-country spillovers of fiscal consolidations in the euro area

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2017

This paper revisits the issue of cross-country spillovers from fiscal consolidations using an innovative empirical methodology. We find evidence in support of fiscal spillovers in 10 euro area countries. Fiscal consolidation in one country not only reduces domestic output (direct effect), but...

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The short-term impact of COVID-19 on labor markets, poverty and inequality in Brazil

Al Masri, Diala; Flamini, Valentina; Toscani, Frederik - 2021

decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

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Trade and inclusive growth

Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...

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The poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing : channels and policy implications

Shang, Baoping - 2021

Addressing the poverty and distributional impacts of carbon pricing reforms is critical for the success of ambitious … which carbon pricing can potentially affect poverty and inequality. It finds that the channels differ in important ways …

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