Volume/Issue: 2014/27
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
February
2014
ISBN: 9781616355906
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities' free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authoritie...
Volume/Issue: 2014/27
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
February
2014
ISBN: 9781616355906
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities' free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authoritie...
Volume/Issue: 2014/27
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
February
2014
ISBN: 9781616355906
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities' free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authoritie...
Volume/Issue: 2014/27
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
February
2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616355906.002
ISBN: 9781616355906
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities' free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authoritie...
Volume/Issue: 2014/27
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
February
2014
ISBN: 9781616355906
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities' free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authoritie...
Volume/Issue: 2011/15
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s):
Masahiro Nozaki
,
Benedict Clements
, and
Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
31
August
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463935146.006
ISBN: 9781463935146
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief an...
Volume/Issue: 2011/15
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s):
Masahiro Nozaki
,
Benedict Clements
, and
Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
31
August
2011
ISBN: 9781463935146
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief an...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
ISBN: 9781616350420
Expenditure Reform: Key Principles
Expenditure reforms should be guided by two objectives:
Improving the efficien...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
ISBN: 9781616350420
This paper seeks to identify policy tools that could be used for fiscal consolidation in advanced and emerging countries in the wake of the global financial crisis. Issues related to the size and timing of f...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
ISBN: 9781616350420
Increasing the Tax
27
Ratio: Principles and Experience
For countries looking to substantially increase tax revenue, standard principles (equity, eff...
Volume: 10
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616350420.087
ISBN: 9781616350420
This paper identifies policy tools that could be used for fiscal consolidation in advanced and emerging economies in the years ahead. The consolidation strategy, particularly in advanced countries, should aim to st...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
ISBN: 9781616350420
This paper identifies policy tools that could be used for fiscal consolidation in advanced and emerging economies in the years ahead. The consolidation strategy, particularly in advanced countries, should aim to st...
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
Juan Toro R.
, and
Victoria Perry
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2010
ISBN: 9781616350420
This paper identifies policy tools that could be used for fiscal consolidation in advanced and emerging economies in the years ahead. The consolidation strategy, particularly in advanced countries, should aim to st...
Volume: 2010
Series: Technical Notes and Manuals
Author(s):
Eva Jenkner
, and
Adam Leive
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
20
September
2010
ISBN: 9781462369713
This technical note analyzes the health care spending issues in advanced economies. Both public and total health spending have increased substantially in advanced countries. Total health spending increased by more...
Volume: 10
Series: Technical Notes and Manuals
Author(s):
Eva Jenkner
, and
Adam Leive
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
20
September
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781462369713.005
ISBN: 9781462369713
This technical note analyzes the health care spending issues in advanced economies. Both public and total health spending have increased substantially in advanced countries. Total health spending increased by more...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
Like other socioeconomic systems, a health system is structured by state action or inaction to serve certain social purposes. A state makes conscious decisions in structuring the system to achieve certain ob...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
A. Basic Facts about the Health Sector
Certain basic facts about the health sector and health care are not widely known. This section explains what macroeconomists should know on thi...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
Although specific issues confront nations at different stages of development, several issues confront all nations throughout the world. We first present the universal issues, then the ones for each stage....
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
A. The Need for a Guide for Macroeconomists
Whether working on a low-income country or an advanced economy, it is important that macroeconomists be aware of issues in health economic...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
A. Characterizing Different Stages of Health System Development
This chapter presents an analytical framework to help macroeconomists understand health systems and assess health poli...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
A. Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries
The CMH was initiated by the WHO as a means of providing an evidence base for economic and financial policymakers in low-income countries on...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
As a general rule, issues of health care policy have not generally been seen as the domain of macroeconomists. Only in recent years, with the report of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Commission on Mac...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066182.058
ISBN: 9781589066182
This primer explains why macroeconomists need to be concerned with issues of health policy and elaborates the essential information that a macroeconomist should know in providing inputs to discussions on health sec...
Series: IMF Special Issues
Author(s):
Peter Heller
, and
William Hsiao
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
27
April
2007
ISBN: 9781589066182
This primer explains why macroeconomists need to be concerned with issues of health policy and elaborates the essential information that a macroeconomist should know in providing inputs to discussions on health sec...
Volume/Issue: 2001/3
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Markus Haacker
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451974140.003
ISBN: 9781451974140
The paper provides an economic analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector i Southern Africa. It provides indicators for the scale of the impact, including estimates of tr. costs of various forms treatm...
Volume/Issue: 2001/3
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Markus Haacker
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2001
ISBN: 9781451974140
The paper provides an economic analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector i Southern Africa. It provides indicators for the scale of the impact, including estimates of tr. costs of various forms treatm...
Volume/Issue: 1998/14
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1998
ISBN: 9781451967760
This paper briefly describes the factors constraining the social protection policies in the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union (BRO). The analysis considers public spending in social pr...
Volume/Issue: 1998/14
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
December
1998
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451967760.003
ISBN: 9781451967760
This paper briefly describes the factors constraining the social protection policies in the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union (BRO). The analysis considers public spending in social pr...
