This paper presents a number of policy experiments carried out within a modelling framework, which can be characterized as a merger of the financial programming and the revised minimum standard models, associated with respectively the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The baserun...

This paper presents a number of policy experiments carried out within a modelling framework, which can be characterized as a merger of the financial programming and the revised minimum standard models, associated with respectively the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The baserun...

The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the PRGF-supported programs in the African Department. The paper illustrates that many staff country reports have taken a first step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links...

This paper examines the monetary policy framework of Guyana. Guyana’s monetary Policy is motivated by the IMF’s financial programming model. The quantity of excess reserves in the banking system is seen as critical in determining bank credit and ultimately the external balance and...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided support to the MOF to formulate a user-friendly and easily transferable computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to reflect the effect of changes in various public policies and forecast changes of fiscal policy on different sectors of the economy....

Este libro examina los fundamentos teóricos de un programa financiero utilizado en Costa Rica, describe la evolución de las principales variables de los sectores real, monetario, fiscal y externo de Costa Rica, en particular para 2004-2008, analiza algunas de las políticas económicas de ese...

This paper discusses the evaluation of technical assistance (TA) and training provided by the Statistical Department (STA) of the IMF to Peru during 1993–2011. The results showed that TA was reasonably effective, especially in the areas of government finance statistics, and responded well...

This paper presents some government policies scenarios and proposes the appropriate policies for stimulating the economic growth in Romania. The GDP dynamics, budgetary revenues, employment and wages are forecasted using a macroeconomic model of the Romanian economy. The direct effects of the...

The article presents the limitations and advantages of a financial programming model applied to Romania's case in order to draw up economic growth scenarios under the government policies conditions. This type of financial programming model gives the best forecasting results for the economies...

Este libro examina los fundamentos teóricos de un programa financiero utilizado en Costa Rica, describe la evolución de las principales variables de los sectores real, monetario, fiscal y externo de Costa Rica, en particular para 2004-2008, analiza algunas de las políticas económicas de ese...