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Excerpt: Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery »
Series: Miscellaneous Publication (Other)
Author(s): Martin Schindler , Helge Berger , Bas Bakker , and Antonio Spilimbergo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 January 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484373309.073
ISBN: 9781484373309
Keywords: Economic conditions, Financial crises, Labor market reforms, Total factor productivity, Development, MISC PUBS, euro area, sector debt, labor market, labor market reform
Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis, Europe's economy is still fragile. Notwithstanding recent positive signs amid calmer financial markets, medium-term growth is likely to remain frail owing...

The Baltics : Competitiveness on the Eve of EU Accession »
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s): Yuan Xiao , Robert Burgess , and Stefania Fabrizio
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 July 2004
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589063266.058
ISBN: 9781589063266
Keywords: European Union, Labor productivity, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rates, exchange rate, real exchange rate, real exchange rates, inflation
Large current account deficits in Estonia and Latvia, and the continued real appreciation of the exchange rate in Lithuania, have prompted concerns about the competitiveness of the Baltic economies, and called into...

Excerpt : Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries »
Series: Miscellaneous Publication (Other)
Author(s): Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/CPVIEAEX.073
ISBN: CPVIEAEX
Keywords: Agricultural sector, Balance of trade, Central banking, Central banks, Civil society, Commodities, Commodity price shocks, Commodity prices, Consumption, Credit
In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic growth. However, many are now facing enormous difficulties because of rapidly rising food...

Productivity in the Netherlands »
Source: Productivity in the Netherlands
Volume/Issue: 2020/155
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Sakai Ando
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 August 2020
ISBN: 9781513552484
Keywords: productivity, labor-market duality
Although GDP growth in the Netherlands has recently been stronger than in peer countries, the main contributor has been the growth in labor. If GDP is divided by labor, productivity growth appears to have been slow...

Portugal: Selected Issues »
Source: Portugal : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2005/376
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 October 2005
ISBN: 9781451928006
Keywords: productivity growth, labor market, labor productivity growth, labor costs
This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews the considerations regarding productivity slowdown. The favorable evolution of income growth from the 1970s to the mid-1990s in Portugal was associated with above-aver...

Portugal: Selected Issues »
Source: Portugal : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2005/376
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 October 2005
ISBN: 9781451928006
Keywords: productivity growth, labor market, labor productivity growth, labor costs
This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews the considerations regarding productivity slowdown. The favorable evolution of income growth from the 1970s to the mid-1990s in Portugal was associated with above-aver...

Portugal: Selected Issues »
Source: Portugal : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2005/376
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 October 2005
ISBN: 9781451928006
Keywords: productivity growth, labor market, labor productivity growth, labor costs
This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews the considerations regarding productivity slowdown. The favorable evolution of income growth from the 1970s to the mid-1990s in Portugal was associated with above-aver...

The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Approach »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 2
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 June 2009
ISBN: 9781589067950
Keywords: labor productivity growth, employment, labor productivity, labor shares
China's growth performance since the start of economic reforms in 1978 has been impressive, but the gains have not been distributed equally across provinces. We use a nonparametric approach to analyze the variation...

Why Has the Grass Been Greener on One Side of Hispaniola? A Comparative Growth Analysis of the Dominican Republic and Haiti »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 2
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 June 2009
ISBN: 9781589067950
Keywords: labor productivity growth, employment, labor productivity, labor shares
China's growth performance since the start of economic reforms in 1978 has been impressive, but the gains have not been distributed equally across provinces. We use a nonparametric approach to analyze the variation...

Foreign Entanglements: Estimating the Source and Size of Spillovers Across Industrial Countries »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 2
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 June 2009
ISBN: 9781589067950
Keywords: labor productivity growth, employment, labor productivity, labor shares
China's growth performance since the start of economic reforms in 1978 has been impressive, but the gains have not been distributed equally across provinces. We use a nonparametric approach to analyze the variation...