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International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

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Chile; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper on Chile assesses the long-term outlook of Chileâ€™s private pension system. The paper provides an overview of Chileâ€™s recent experience with publicâ€“private partnerships (PPPs), focusing on the design of its institutional framework. The paper...

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Mozambique; Recent Economic Developments

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1997

This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Mozambique during 1990â€“96. Under the Economic and Social Rehabilitation Program (ESRP), the economy has made impressive economic gains. Real GDP growth averaged 6.7 percent in 1987â€“95, despite the civil war, a decline in...

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Romania; Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This paper assesses Romaniaâ€™s Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and a Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion. Romaniaâ€™s macroeconomic performance continued to be favorable, but slippages in wage policy and privatization delayed the completion of the third review....

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Republic of Belarus; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

This Selected Issues paper reviews developments during 2001â€“02 in the Belarusian pension system, and discusses potential short- and medium-term reforms needed to put pension system finances on a sustainable path. The paper presents a short overview of demographic trends and developments...

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Uzbekistan; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1996

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes developments in the domestic economy of Uzbekistan. The paper highlights that after declining by 17Â½ percent during 1992â€“94, real GDP fell by only about 1 percent in 1995. The moderation in the output decline was due in part...

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It's Not What You Make, it's How You Use it; Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the it Revolution Across Countries

Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a … wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to … overall benefits of the IT revolution, are a less valuable way of assessing the distribution of benefits. …

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Cost of Living Adjustment and Business Cycles; Disaggregated Evidence

Kandil, Magda E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

contras to producers’ attempt to maintain, or even increase, industrial real price inflation during recessions. Consistently …, the increase in the profit markup is correlated with an increase in output contraction and a reduction in workers’ real …

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The Costs and Benefits of Various Wage Bargaining Structures; An Empirical Exploration

Thomas, Alun H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

externalities. This paper uses OECD data to distinguish these effects. While wages have become more sensitive to changes in the …

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Centralized Bargaining, Efficiency Wages, and Flexibility

Ramaswamy, Ramana; Rowthorn, Bob - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993

The main focus of the “wage bargaining” literature has been on the factors promoting real wage flexibility at the macro level. This paper, in contrast, examines the microeconomic issues of wage bargaining. More specifically, this paper appraises the following questions: (a) what are the...

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