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This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...
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of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
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. -- Eu enlargement ; monetary integration ; economic integration ; EMU ; ERM 2 ; trade and FDI ; financial markets ; fiscal …
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. -- Eu enlargement ; monetary integration ; economic integration ; EMU ; ERM 2 ; trade and FDI ; financial markets ; fiscal …
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This paper extends the Dincer and Eichengreen (2007) index of central bank transparency. Improvements in transparency are notable in Central and Eastern Europe, while the index has shown much smaller rises in most other parts of the world. The pattern observed by Dincer and Eichengreen,...
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Macroprudential policy holds the promise of becoming a powerful tool for preventing financial crises. Financial amplification in response to domestic shocks or global spillovers and pecuniary externalities caused by Fisherian collateral constraints provide a sound theoretical foundation for this...
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During emerging market crises, domestic agents might have sufficient collateral to borrow from the other domestic agents, but they are unable to borrow from foreigners because the country, as a whole, lacks international collateral. In this setting, we show that an (ex-post) optimizing central...
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Conventional wisdom holds that monetary policy in emerging economies is procyclical, unlike in advanced economies. Using a large sample of countries from the mid-1990s onwards, we show that the conduct of monetary policy is not fundamentally different across these two groups of countries....
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The research in this paper is focus on macroeconomic analysis of trade and other relevant indicator for real economy … such as government net debt, exchange rate, interest rate, and especially the correlation between trade and growth. Today … trade is challenge for economists of small developing countries. The mail goal in this paper is theoretical analysis of some …
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was a modernizing movement, a radical alteration of the production-trade system, composition and population distribution …
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