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Solomon Islands; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This Selected Issues paper examines prospects for increasing growth and reducing poverty in the Solomon Islands. The paper highlights that agriculture constitutes the largest sector of the Solomon Islands economy, averaging about 20 percent of GDP throughout the 1990s. The Solomon Islands also...

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Rwanda; Second and Third Reviews Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria, and Request for Additional Interim Assistance Under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative-Staff Report; Staff Statements; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Rwanda

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Rwandaâ€™s Second and Third Reviews under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and request for Waiver of Performance Criteria are discussed. After an extended period characterized by a strong expansion of economic activity, real GDP growth is estimated by IMF staff to have slowed to...

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Basel Capital Requirements and Credit Crunch in the MENA Region

Naceur, Sami Ben; Kandil, Magda E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The 1988 Basel I Accord set the common requirements of bank capital to promote the soundness and stability of the international banking system. The agreement required banks to hold capital in proportion to their perceived credit risks, and this requirement may have caused a “credit crunch,”...

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Financial Spillovers to Chile

Podpiera, Jiri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper quantifies financial spillovers from global risk factors to banksâ€™ funding costs in Chile. It decomposes Chilean banksâ€™ bond and interbank spreads into domestic and external factors. The results suggest moderate spillovers. On average, global spillovers pushed up bank...

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The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-Examined; Do All Countries Benefit Equally?

Barajas, Adolfo; Chami, Ralph; Yousefi, Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

A large theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the impact of financial deepening on economic growth throughout the world. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating whether this impact differs across regions, income levels, and types of economy. Using a rich dataset...

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Determinants of Credit Growth and Interest Margins in the Philippines and Asia

Tan, Tatum Blaise Pua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

weaknesses in bank balance sheets, consumption-led economic growth, and relatively high net interest margins. Bank-level analysis … suggests that interest margins in the Philippines rise with bank size, bank capitalization, foreign ownership, overhead costs … reduce net interest margins, informing the policy debate on strengthening financial intermediation in the Philippines. …

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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...

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Schumacher, Liliana; Barnhill, Theodore M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper proposes and demonstrates a methodology for modeling correlated systemic solvency and liquidity risks for a banking system. Using a forward looking simulation of many risk factors applied to detailed balance sheets for a 10 bank stylized United States banking system, we analyze...

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The Economic Crisis; Did Financial Supervision Matter?

Quintyn, Marc; Pansini, Rosaria Vega; Masciandaro, Donato - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The Asian financial crisis marked the beginning of worldwide efforts to improve the effectiveness of financial supervision. However, the crisis that started in 2007?08 was a crude awakening: several of these improvements seemed unable to avoid or mitigate the crisis. This paper brings the first...

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Managing Systemic Banking Crises

Quintyn, Marc; Hoelscher, David S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Recent financial sector crises and their resolution have raised new issues and provided additional experiences to draw on in the future. Banking sector problems in Russia, Turkey, and a few Latin American countries occurred within the context of highly dollarized economies, high levels of...

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