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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the role of public and private imbalances in the cyclicality of the current account balance in a sample of advanced and developing countries. Within developing countries, the evidence does not establish the dependency of private investment on...
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Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: Does board membership lead to higher funding from the...
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Abstract The worldwide growth slowdown after 1975 was a major negative fiscal shock; lower growth lowers the present value of tax revenues and primary surpluses and thus makes a given level of debt more burdensome. Most countries failed to adjust to the negative fiscal consequences of the growth...
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This case study of fiscal sustainability in Turkey after the crisis in 2001 reviews and extends quantitative approaches to fiscal sustainability analysis and brings them together in a user-friendly tool applicable in a data-sparse environment. It combines a dynamic simulations approach with a...
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India and similar emerging economies at present. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses analytical arguments from … representative of the population need to be explored. Practical implications – Monetary policy in India (and similar emerging … model presented in this paper explains the sustained divergence in India, in recent years, between the CPI versus the GDP …
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in inflation in India, as well as in inflation expectations, a discussion of the role of monetary policy is needed. This … reactions to macroeconomic news. Findings – The authors documented the unhinging of inflation expectations in India in the … framework of the Reserve Bank of India would benefit from further evolution in the direction of a precisely defined and …
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Before the Real plan was launched, five major stabilization plans failed to control Brazil's chronic inflationary process. A loose-stance fiscal policy, associated with widespread price indexation and a passive-stance monetary policy, was thought to drive the ever-growing rate of prices as well...
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Abstract The EU fiscal framework has often been criticised for not providing Member States with the right incentives to adopt structural reforms which would reduce implicit liabilities and improve sustainability. The Pact, as reformed in 2005, now includes a number of provisions that explicitly...
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