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Sovereign Spreads and Contagion Risks in Asia

Unsal, D. Filiz - 2011

. But, after the crisis, Asia’s sovereign spreads normalized, despite the debt crisis in the euro area, reflecting a fall in …

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Financial Crises and Emerging Market Trade

Thomas, Alun H. - 2009

This chapter discusses various aspects of financial crises and emerging market trade. The current global financial crisis and the sharp reduction in trade flows have raised questions about the extent to which access to capital affects the ability of companies to produce and sell exports and to...

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Global Monitoring Report, 2010 : The MDGs after the Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 2010

What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This year’s Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing countries. Although the recovery is under way,...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Adjustment to Shocks in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda : A Balance Sheet Analysis Perspective

Masha, Iyabo - 2009

This paper analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis on the banking systems in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and their responses to it, using information from banking system balance sheets. The paper undertakes two distinct analyses. In the first analysis, the focus is on the trend in...

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Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?

Estevão, Marcello M. - 2011

The recent crisis has had differential effects across U.S. states and industries causing a wide geographic dispersion in skill mismatches and housing market performance. We document these facts and, using data from the 50 states plus D.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that...

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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Exchange Rates and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kaendera, Stella - 2009

This paper studies the evolution of the exchange rates of sub-Saharan African currencies in the context of the global financial crisis. In particular, it analyzes the reasons behind the differences in the magnitude and volatility of the exchange rates among countries. To this end, it takes a...

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Korean Crisis and Recovery

Coe, David T. - 2002

Edited by David T. Coe and Se-Jik Kim, this volume contains papers presented at a May 2001 conference in Seoul sponsored by the IMF and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy on the Korean Crisis and Recovery. The papers examine the response to the 1997 crisis, its long-term...

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Global Imbalances and Financial Stability

Xafa, Miranda - 2007

This paper discusses two opposing views on global imbalances: The ""traditional view"", which regards the imbalances as … unwinding of the imbalances involving a sell-off of dollar assets, a sharp increase in U.S. interest rates, and a hard landing … for the global economy. By contrast, the new paradigm view considers that the imbalances will be resolved smoothly through …

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Per Jacobsson Lecture : Society, Economic Policies, and the Financial Sector

International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2013

The future of finance, and in particular saving it from a popular backlash against the global financial crisis and related crisis management policies, has become a matter of great concern. In this brochure, which presents in written form a lecture from the Per Jacobsson Foundation’s lecture...

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Quarterly GDP Revisions in G-20 Countries : Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis

Shrestha, Manik L. - 2013

This paper presents a statistical analysis of revisions in quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) of the Group of Twenty countries (G-20) since 2000. The main objective is to assess whether the reliability of early estimates of quarterly GDP has been weakened from the turmoil of the 2008...

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