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Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”
Weisbrot, Mark; Ray, Rebecca - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
percent. The IMF projects another 4 percent drop this year, and predicts that the total loss of output from peak to bottom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478935
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The SDR and Its Potential as an International Reserve Asset
Chelsky, Jeff - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 58, pp. 1-6
makers and academics in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Right (SDR) as a “safe” international reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009023799
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Early Warning System: An Assessment of Vulnerability
Reinhart, Carmen; Goldstein, Morris; Kaminsky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Predicting the timing of currency and banking crises is likely to remain an elusive task for academics, financial market participants, and policymakers. Few foresaw the Asian crises and fewer still could have imagined their severity. However, recent events have highlighted the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531929
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Does the World Need a Universal Financial Institution?
Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
All financial institutions specialize, in dimensions that may include categories of assets and liabilities, types of services offered, customer demographics, and geographic coverage. The International Monetary Fund is the only international financial institution that is universal in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248315
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Countercyclical policy for Africa: institutional and economic feasibility
Weeks, John - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 112-133
In August 2009, the Freetown Declaration by the African finance ministers committed their governments to 'implement fiscal stimulus measures' to counter the effects of the international financial crisis. This paper analyses the institutional and economic feasibility of realising this commitment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670240
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A Model of Market Clearing Exchange Rates
Parchure, Rajas - eSocialSciences - 2009
which are routinely collected by central banks and reported to the IMF are arranged by their countrywise origins and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964285
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Out of the Box Thoughts About the International Financial Architecture
Eichengreen, Barry J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
international financial architecture that might be implemented over the next ten years. It proposes routinizing the expansion of IMF … transactions, which would require someone-like the IMF-to act as market maker. It considers proposals for reimposing Glass …. Again there is likely to be a role for the IMF. Then there are arguments for a new agency or institution to deal with cross …
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The effects of privatisation and FDI on economic growth in Argentina
Naguib, Rania Ihab - Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, … - 2010
This paper uses time-series model to estimate the effects of privatisation and FDI on economic growth in Argentina over the period 1971- 2000. Unit root tests and Co-integration tests are used to ensure that all variables used are stationary and that there exists a long run relationship among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683630
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Aid and Economic Growth: A Robust Approach
Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena; Racine, Jeffrey S. - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper uses panel data and the Local Linear Kernel Estimator (LLKE) to investigate the effects of aid on economic growth in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of a popular parametric specification of the aid/economic growth re lationship in Less Developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938822
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Aid and Economic Growth: A Robust Approach
Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena; Racine, Jeffrey S. - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper uses panel data and the Local Linear Kernel Estimator (LLKE) to investigate the effects of aid on economic growth in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of a popular parametric specification of the aid/economic growth re lationship in Less Developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941210