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Statistical Treatment of 'Build-Own-Operate-Transfer Schemes
Donaghue, Brian - 2002
transferred to the government- should be treated in macroeconomic statistics as owned by the government from the outset. The paper …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518909
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Can reform waves turn the tide? : some case studies using the synthetic control method
Adhikari, Bibek; Duval, Romain; Hu, Bingjie; Loungani, … - 2016
A number of advanced economies carried out a sequence of extensive reforms of their labor and product markets in the … of reforms, those of New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Ireland and Netherlands in the 1990s, and the labor market reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715188
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Building statistical capacity in fragile and conflict-affected states
Medina Cas, Stephanie; Alem, Yasmin; Shirakawa, Jacinta … - 2022
Based on internal data, this paper finds that the capacity development program of the IMF's Statistics Department has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170071
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Statistical coverage of trade finance : Fintechs and supply chain financing
Wersch, Cornelia Lotte van - 2019
Trade finance is the backbone of international trade for entities ranging from a small businesses to multi-national corporations. An estimated 80 percent of world trade relies on this form of finance (WTO, 2017). Despite its systemic importance and rapid growth, data availability is only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102182
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The use of data in assessing and designing insolvency systems
Bergthaler, Wolfgang; DeLong, Chanda; Johnson, Juliet Ellen - 2019
sources of data on insolvency proceedings, including general insolvency statistics, judicial statistics, statistics of … insolvency regulators and other sources, and advocates for the design of special data collection mechanisms and statistics to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009271
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Data Consistency in IMF Publications : Country Staff Reports Versus International Financial Statistics
Cady, John - 2005
Data published in IMF country staff reports and International Financial Statistics (IFS) may differ for identical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401027
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Discrepancies Between Quarterly GDP Estimates
Bloem, Adriaan M. - 1997
Countries compiling quarterly estimates for gross domestic product (GDP) often use alternative approaches simultaneously. This may result in the publication of different measures of quarterly GDP and discrepancies between these measures. Such discrepancies are unavoidable, unless reconciliation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401272
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Providing official Statistics for the Common Market and Monetary Union in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries : A Case for ""Gulfstat""
Al-Mansouri, Abdulrahman K. L. - 2006
""Gulf States System of Statistics."" Valuable lessons can be learned from regional statistical organization in Africa and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402989
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Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs
Seiferling, Mike - 2013
The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries … has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however …. The IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) withdata over an almost 40 year period for almost 140 countries is …
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