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This paper describes some policy instruments set up by the IMF and the European Union in order to provide financial assistance to developing countries whose economies are affected by exogenous shocks from exports side. After briefly reviewing the IMF's CFF and the EU's STABEX, the paper presents...
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: (i) monetary volatility negatively affects long-run growth; (ii) the relation between nominal volatility and growth … increases the negative effect of nominal volatility on mean growth. …
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-stationary productivity shock process. Third, the observed data favor the quadratic benchmark RBC and financial frictions models over the …
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Policy prescriptions for managing natural resource windfalls are based on the permanent income hypothesis: none of the windfall is invested at home and saving in an intergenerational SWF is dictated by smoothing consumption across different generations. Furthermore, with Dutch disease effects...
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This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of … this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid … commitments and disbursements, particularly the latter. Key aid sectors in explaining total aid volatility relate to debt …
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Purpose- This paper has put a demand-side empirical structure to the hypothesis that foreign aid volatility adversely …. Findings- The findings broadly show that foreign aid volatility does not adversely affect the demand-side choices of lifelong …
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not for all regions. The expansion of private flows has usually come at the cost of an increased volatility that adds up … to aid volatility, already considered to be an issue. We do not find any negative and significant correlations between …
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