Volume/Issue: 2002/5
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
March
2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451972788.003
ISBN: 9781451972788
This paper highlights the macro and microeconomic challenges associated with success of the effort to mobilize 0.7 percent of GNP for official development assistance (ODA). To promote achievement of the Millennium...
Volume/Issue: 7/4
Series: IMF Research Bulletin
Author(s):
Clinton Shiells
,
Antonio Spilimbergo
,
Vladimir Klyuev
, and
Raghuram Rajan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
05
December
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451959697.026
ISBN: 9781451959697
The IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly publication, selectively summarizes research and analytical work done by various departments at the IMF and also provides a listing of research documents and other research-re...
Volume/Issue: 2012/73
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Constant Lonkeng Ngouana
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
March
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475502251.001
ISBN: 9781475502251
This paper assesses the role of trade patterns in shaping the volatility of the effective exchange rate under two alternative peg regimes: a hard peg to a single currency and a peg to a basket of currencies. I link...
Volume/Issue: 2009/221
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Lone Engbo Christiansen
,
Alessandro Prati
,
Luca Ricci
, and
Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451873689.001
ISBN: 9781451873689
This paper offers a coherent empirical analysis of the determinants of the real exchange rate, the current account, and the net foreign assets position in low income countries. The paper focuses on indicators speci...
Volume/Issue: 2012/52
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Santanu Chatterjee
, and
Azer Mursagulov
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463937133.001
ISBN: 9781463937133
Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the rea...
Volume/Issue: 2014/68
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Muneesh Kapur
, and
Rakesh Mohan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
April
2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484360675.001
ISBN: 9781484360675
The macroeconomic policy response in India after the North Atlantic financial crisis (NAFC) was rapid. The overshooting of the stimulus and its gradual withdrawal sowed seeds for inflationary and BoP pressures and...
Volume/Issue: 2003/240
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Nephil Maskay
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
2003
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451875812.001
ISBN: 9781451875812
The member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation have set as a target the achievement of an economic union by 2020. Reaching this goal will require greater levels of monetary cooperation. H...
Volume/Issue: 2006/273
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Abbas Mirakhor
, and
Iqbal Zaidi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451865332.001
ISBN: 9781451865332
This paper attempts to set out the principal issues that need to be resolved in formulating a proposal for quotas and voice reform in the IMF that could command broad support. Following John Rawls, we argue that "j...
Volume/Issue: 2006/252
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Anoop Singh
, and
Martin Cerisola
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451865127.001
ISBN: 9781451865127
This paper looks at the historical lessons that might serve to entrech Latin America's newly resurgent growth phase. It briefly reviews the post-World War II experiences in Latin America and Asia, focusing on the c...
Volume/Issue: 2015/18
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Sohrab Rafiq
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
January
2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498334037.001
ISBN: 9781498334037
This paper explores the effect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (QE2) on a group of frontier developing economies (FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have...