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International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This Selected Issues paper discusses the impact of global financial turmoil on Japan. It describes how close integration in global financial markets has deepened and expanded the channels for spillovers. The paper discusses options for increasing the consumption tax to finance the public pension...

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Republic of Belarus; Financial System Stability Assessment: Update, including Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

This paper presents an update to the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSAP) on the Republic of Belarus. The paper reveals that the Belarusian financial sector has so far weathered the ongoing turmoil well, reflecting its relatively closed nature and the dominant role of state-owned banks....

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Mali; Third Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility and Request for a Modification of Performance Criteria: Staff Report; Joint IMF/IDA Debt Sust...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

This paper discusses key findings of the Third Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Mali. Implementation of the ECF-supported program has been challenged by the global financial crisis and the ensuing global slowdown. The new program aims to continue prudent fiscal policies and...

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Republic of Serbia; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

and policy developments in Serbia. The analysis indicates that privatization can result in sizable fiscal savings. …

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Republic of Serbia; Report on Observance of Standards and Codes: Fiscal Transparency Module

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

This report provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in Serbia in relation to the requirements of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency. Serbia has made solid advances in fiscal transparency in recent years, but there are still some major shortcomings. This report...

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Portugal; Fifth Review Under the Extended Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Applicability and Nonobservance of End-September Performance Criteria: Staff Report; Press Release...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The staff report for the Fifth Review Under the Extended Arrangement and Request for Waivers of Applicability and Nonobservance of End-September Performance Criteria, prepared by a staff team of the IMF, following discussions that ended on September 11, 2012, with the officials of Portugal on...

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Republic of Kosovo; Request for Stand-By Arrangement

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

Kosovoâ€™s economic performance has strengthened considerably, but structural deficiencies undermine export sector development and prospects for sustainable growth. The program seeks to restore fiscal sustainability and safeguard financial sector stability. Restoring fiscal sustainability...

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Final Report on Private Sector Development in the MED-11 Region

Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012

This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southern … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …

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Privatization and Strategic Monitoring with Gaussian Priors

Disney, Richard; Ellis, Christopher J.; Nomer, Bulent - In: Public Finance Review 33 (2005) 3, pp. 318-342

This article describes the sale and optimal regulation of a sequence of public utilities, where monitoring of regulatory compliance is costly. The government is concerned with the revenue raised by successive privatizations as well as the standard objective of efficiency in production. The costs...

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The Egyptian Uprising and the Global Capitalist System

Aoude, Ibrahim - In: International Studies 49 (2012) 3-4, pp. 315-330

This article situates Egypt in the global capitalist system to understand better the causes of the uprising beyond the one that has been put forth primarily in the Western media, viz. the authoritarian, undemocratic Mubarak regime was the main source. While democracy is a critical instrument...

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