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Algeria; 2002 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This 2002 Article IV Consultation highlights that the overall budget balance of Algeria weakened in 2001 and the first half of 2002. This deterioration mainly reflected higher spending and a decline in hydrocarbon revenues owing to a reduction in volumes and prices. The overall balance dropped...

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Financial Soundness Indicators; Analytical Aspects and Country Practices

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002

The financial turmoil of the late 1990s prompted a broad search for tools and techniques for detecting and preventing financial crises, and more recent episodes of instability have high lighted the importance of continuous monitoring of financial systems as a tool for preventing crises. This...

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Croatia; Staff Report for 1999 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

Until recently, Croatia's economic performance was the envy of many countries in transition: a successful stabilization effort in late 1993 was followed by virtual price stability and real GDP growth of 6 percent a year during 1994â€“97. Monetary tightening, the weak economy, and a...

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Islamic Republic of Iran; 2003 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Di...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

Domestic demand continued to grow at rapid rates, despite corrective fiscal and monetary policy measures. Although trade and financial sector reforms advanced and foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations were liberalized, there was less progress in improving the business environment, reducing...

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Liberia; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

also highlights the fiscal, monetary, and external sector developments, and the failures and credibility in the banking … classification of central government expenditure, summary of accounts of the central bank of Liberia, and deposit money banks during …

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Algeria; Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency and B...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

financial policy transparency and banking supervision. Financial intermediation in Algeria will be bank-based in the future, and … only politically difficult decisions to gradually sell state banks will eliminate the drag that current banking practices …

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Qatar; Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This 2011 Article IV Consultation highlights that Qatar is using its fiscal space, generated from an increase in hydrocarbon production and prices, to implement a large public spending program. Large infrastructure investments are expected to sustain strong growth of 9 percent to 10 percent in...

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Lao People's Democratic Republic; Staff Report and Public Information Notice

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

-term macroeconomic stability and stem the decline in net foreign assets (NFA) of the banking system. IMF staff noted that the overall …

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Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa; What Went Wrong?

Gall, Françoise Le; Daumont, Roland; Leroux, François - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to study the origins of banking crises in sub-Saharan Africa, drawing upon the experience … these crises. The conclusions underscore that the banking crises examined did not represent an entirely special case … several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …

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Bank Ownership and the Effects of Financial Liberalization; Evidence From India

Gupta, Poonam; Kochhar, Kalpana; Panth, Sanjaya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership affect the availability of credit to the private sector? Empirical evidence is somewhat mixed on these issues. We use the Indian experience with liberalization of the financial...

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