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Background Note 4: Using the IPF Analytical Toolkit to Enhance Policy Assessments
International Monetary Fund

BACKGROUND NOTE 4: USING THE IPF ANALYTICAL TOOLKIT TO ENHANCE POLICY ASSESSMENTS

Keywords:
inflation expectation; inflow surge; IPF work stream; IPF workstream; risk exposure; Currency markets; Global
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Brazil: Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation—Informational Annex
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.

This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Brazil’s growth has decelerated in recent years. The boost from decade-old reforms, expanding labor income, and favorable external conditions, which enabled consumption and credit-led growth and underpinned sustained poverty reduction, has lost steam. Investment has been sluggish, reflecting eroding competitiveness, a worsening business environment, and lower commodity prices. The IMF staff projects negative output growth of 1 percent in 2015, with some drag from tighter fiscal and monetary policies and from the cuts in investment by Petrobras, adding to the downward momentum in activity carried over from 2014.

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ISCR; CR; GDP; central bank; monetary policy; financing; term structure; financial asset; capitalization funds; bank group; fast-growing private sector; Project loans; Government finance statistics; External sector statistics; Global
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International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
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macrostructural policy
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Marcin Kolasa, Gurnain Kaur Pasricha, Mr. Suman S Basu, Ms. Emine Boz, and Dimitre Milkov
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note 4
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The Strategy of Reform in the Previously Centrally-Planned Economies of Eastern Europe: Lessons and Challenges
Mr. Eduardo Borensztein
This paper analyzes some of the lessons that can be drawn from the experience of Eastern Europe in the process of transition to a market economy that is under way, and examines some key challenges currently facing policymakers in these economies. The paper studies the constraints affecting the general strategy of reform--rapid versus gradual--that was adopted, and the output decline initially experienced and its effect on medium-term growth perspectives. The paper also discusses the implementation of mass privatization schemes, and the type and extent of government intervention in the restructuring process. This is a Paper on Policy Analysis and Assessment and the author(s) would welcome any comments on the present text. Citations should refer to a Paper on Policy Analysis and Assessment of the International Monetary Fund, mentioning the authors) and the date of issuance. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the Fund.
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PDP; state enterprise; enterprise; enterprise debt problem; state enterprise sector; government; nonviable enterprise; enterprises collapse; community establishment; enterprise one-for-one; Privatization; Eastern Europe
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Republic of North Macedonia: Informational Annex
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
The Bank and the Fund country teams on the Republic of North Macedonia maintain close collaboration, seeking synergies and harmonizing policy recommendations. The teams broadly agree in their assessment of the economic situation in the country.
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debt data; financial asset; liquidity data; public finance; IMF-World Bank collaboration; IBRD project; CPF objective; government of the Republic; Government finance statistics; External sector statistics
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Who is Still Haunted by the Specter of Communism? Explaining Relative Output Contractions Under Transition
Ms. Katrin Elborgh-Woytek and Mr. Julian Berengaut
The paper analyzes the initial output decline in transition economies by estimating a crosssection model stressing two major factors-conflicts and the legacies of the Soviet period. We link the Soviet legacies in place at the outset of the transition to the subsequent path for the development of market-related institutions. Institutional development (as proxied by measures of corruption) is used as an intermediate variable. An instrumental variable approach is followed to derive estimates that are not biased by the possible endogeneity of corruption with respect to output developments. Assuming that the extent of Soviet legacies was positively correlated with the length of the communist rule allows us to use the years under the Soviet regime as an instrument.
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WP; country authorities; authority; Visegrad country; economy; Commonwealth of Independent States; CIS; CIS country; transition economy; market failure; output decline; Estimation techniques; Personal income tax; Corruption; Baltics; Central and Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe
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Interview with Gita Gopinath: New Director of the Research Department

IMF Research Perspectives is the new online newsletter covering updates on IMF research.

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IRB; economy; heightened economic risk; investor; energy consumption; asset price; work agenda; investor sentiment; dream job; modeling work; Global; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Consumption; Asset prices; Personal income; Robotics; Income; IMF research perspective; measuring sentiment; director of the research DepartmentTechnological change; future of work; impact of Africa; economics career; research work; intro interview; work of the Fund; account crisis; Structural reforms; Women; Exchange rates
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Joint Responsibility Shared Rewards: The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda
International Monetary Fund
International cooperation, economic and financial integration, and technological progress have delivered enormous benefits across the globe during the past decades. Yet, in many countries, these benefits have not been shared adequately to prevent eroding trust in institutions and weakening support for the global system that has made these gains possible.
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PP; policy; Fund; domestic policy; fund policy advice; IMF Policy; policy outcome; policy uncertainty; capital flow management policy; Policy agenda; policy action; multilateral policy; Illicit financial flows; Trade tensions; Structural reforms; Global
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Implementation Plan in Response to The Board: Endorsed Recommendations from the IEO Evaluation on IMF Advice on Capital Flows
International Monetary Fund
The actions in this document aim at • Bringing the Fund’s framework for advice on capital flow policies up to date with recent research and lessons from experience. • Enhancing and coordinating a Fund-wide research • Ramping up the monitoring and analysis of capital flows. • Strengthening multilateral cooperation on policy issues affecting capital flows.
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IEO recommendation; IMF taxonomy; resource implication; implementation plan; capital account; Capital flows; Capital account; Institutional View on capital flows; Capital flow management; Global