Volume/Issue: 2017/298
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2017
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484321508.002
ISBN: 9781484321508
This Technical Assistance Report discusses technical advice and recommendations given by the IMF mission to the authorities of Uganda regarding finalization of the rebased GDP estimates for dissemination. For the e...
Volume/Issue: 2017/298
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
06
October
2017
ISBN: 9781484321508
This Technical Assistance Report discusses technical advice and recommendations given by the IMF mission to the authorities of Uganda regarding finalization of the rebased GDP estimates for dissemination. For the e...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Time for a Policy Reset
Economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa has weakened markedly, but, as usual, with a large variation in country circumstances. Growth for the...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Financial development is important for promoting strong and stable economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It entails the wider use of existing financial instruments as well as the creation and adoption of ne...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498388139.086
ISBN: 9781498388139
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, though with large variation among countries in the region. The sharp decline in commodity prices has severely strained ma...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, though with large variation among countries in the region. The sharp decline in commodity prices has severely strained ma...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, though with large variation among countries in the region. The sharp decline in commodity prices has severely strained ma...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Unless otherwise noted, data and projections presented in this Regional Economic Outlook are IMF staff estimates as of 25 March, 2016, consistent with the projections underlying the April 2016 World Economic...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
Economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 slumped to its lowest level in some 15 years. Output expanded by 3.4 percent, just a little above population growth, down from 5 percent in 2014 and the still...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
May
2016
ISBN: 9781498388139
The dependence on natural resource exports has made nearly half of sub-Saharan African countries vulnerable, one way or another, to the ongoing decline in commodity prices. But how much and how deeply countr...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513511832.071
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has a long and varied history, and this book examines how the WAEMU can achieve its development and stability objectives, improve the livelihood of its people, a...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has a long and varied history, and this book examines how the WAEMU can achieve its development and stability objectives, improve the livelihood of its people, a...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has a long and varied history, and this book examines how the WAEMU can achieve its development and stability objectives, improve the livelihood of its people, a...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The transmission to individual West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries of the Central Bank of West African States’ (BCEAO’s) single monetary policy has remained, on average, l...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The level of the financial sector development in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) can be assessed with respect to its depth, breadth, and access to financial services by comp...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries lag behind benchmark countries in several dimensions of financial inclusion: access to finance is low, especially for the most vulnerab...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Financial stability is critical for the proper functioning of the financial system and is critical for growth. In the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), a significant strengthenin...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The financial system in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is dominated by the banking sector, but is evolving rapidly with the emergence of new transnational banking groups an...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) region faces the challenge of mobilizing resources for growth financing. The regional financial market has grown substantially in the past de...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Are fiscal rules and market discipline effective in ensuring fiscal sustainability in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)? Achieving fiscal discipline in a monetary union withou...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
Against a backdrop of mediocre medium-term growth prospects, identifying policies that could lift productivity growth by promoting innovation is critical. Fiscal policy can play an important role in stimulat...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Fiscal policy is the main policy tool available to West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries, and is critical to the stability of the monetary union. In the WAEMU, the fixed exc...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries face an important common challenge of creating sufficient fiscal space to finance ambitious growth, development, and poverty-reduction...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Foreign investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) remains limited. Even government debt, the least risky investment instrument, attracts very little attention from nonre...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Growth performance depends heavily on its distributional characteristics. The fundamental question is equality, that is, whether the benefits of growth are shared equally across different income...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is a currency and a customs union. Improved competitiveness, economic convergence, common market, policy coordination, and law harmonization...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) experience shows that economic integration may have a significant impact on poverty reduction, even if the “growth channel” is weak. On the one h...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
In 2013, the liquidity position of the commercial banking system vis-à-vis the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) swung from a structural liquidity surplus to a deficit. This reflected...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The common external tariff (CET) for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which includes all West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries, became effective in Ja...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
There is a strong theoretical and practical argument for fiscal-monetary policy coordination in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). WAEMU countries conduct independent fiscal p...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Economic growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has been historically low but has increased recently, driven by structural reforms and economic recovery in the region’s l...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Mobile banking systems present a unique opportunity to increase financial inclusiveness at a relatively low cost and have been largely successful in other sub-Saharan African countries. But ther...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The objective of this chapter is to determine the impact of a change in the key interest rates of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), as well as other e...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Is there scope and need for monetary policy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)? At first glance the answer would appear to be “no,” as the WAEMU is a currency union with a f...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
The global economy remains fragile at this time. While the recovery in advanced economies is softening, many emerging market and developing economies have experienced a significant economic slowdown and some...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Public investment in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has been pro-cyclical. Evidence from a panel of low-income and lower middle-income countries suggests that, contrary to...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Growth takeoff in Africa has been one of the salient facts of the global economy in the last two decades. However, while per capita GDP has more than doubled in faster-growing sub-Saharan econom...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) zone is undertaking an ambitious program to develop the regional market for government securities as a means to mobilize additional financing...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Regional trade among West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries is not exploited to its full potential as an engine for growth. Regional trade is dominated by three countries (Cô...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has been negatively affected by macroeconomic shocks. Such shocks can be symmetric, affecting similarly all countries of the Union...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) in the past has been overall disappointing and highly volatile compared with growth in a group of comparator countries. Slow struct...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The process of tax coordination in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is one of the most advanced in the world—de jure at least—but remains in many areas ineffective de facto....
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
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Country name
AFG
Afghanistan...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
Navigating a Risky World
The weakening of the global recovery and concerns about the ability of policymakers to provide an adequate and swift policy response have clouded economic pr...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513510590.089
ISBN: 9781513510590
The global economy remains fragile at this time. While the recovery in advanced economies is softening, many emerging market and developing economies have experienced a significant economic slowdown, and some large...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
Fiscal Monitor Archives
Navigating the Fiscal Challe...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
The global economy remains fragile at this time. While the recovery in advanced economies is softening, many emerging market and developing economies have experienced a significant economic slowdown, and some large...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
Cyclical balance
Cyclical component of the overall fiscal balance, computed as the difference between cyclica...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
The following remarks were made by the Chair at the conclusion of the Executive Board’s discussion of the Fiscal Monitor, Global Financial Stability Report, and World Economic Outlook on March 2...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is one of four currency unions in the world. The WAEMU consists of eight low-income countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Biss...
Series: Fiscal Monitor
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513510590
This appendix comprises four sections. Data and Conventions provides a general description of the data and conventions used to calculate economy group composites. Fiscal Policy Assumptions summarizes the cou...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is part of the Communauté Financière Africaine (CFA) franc zone, an arrangement between France and a number of countries...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
Economic performance in most West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries has strengthened over the past two decades. Most WAEMU countries have weathered well t...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries conduct independent fiscal policies but coordinate some aspects of these policies within the regional institutional...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is a currency union with a fixed exchange rate and limited capital mobility and, therefore, an independent monetary polic...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) aims at enhancing financial sector stability and development, and spearheading financial deepening and integration in the...
Series: Books
Author(s):
Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
13
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513511832
Preface
In the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), trade integration followed monetary integration and it remains less developed. Regional trade is limited, as there ar...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
Recent Developments and Prospects
Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across countries and regions. These include the slowdown and rebalancing in...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
This chapter finds that product and labor market reforms raise output and employment in the medium term, but complementary macroeconomic policies are needed to maximize their short-term payoff g...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
Net capital flows to emerging market economies have slowed since 2010, affecting all regions. This chapter shows that both weaker inflows and stronger outflows have contributed to the slowdown a...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
The baseline projection for global growth in 2016 is a modest 3.2 percent, broadly in line with last year, and a 0.2 percentage point downward revision relative to the January 2016 World Economi...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
Global recovery continues, but at an ever-slowing and increasingly fragile pace. The months since the last World Economic Outlook have seen a renewed episode of global asset market volatility, some loss of g...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
The following remarks were made by the Chair at the conclusion of the Executive Board’s discussion of the Fiscal Monitor, Global Financial Stability Report, and World Economic Outlook on March 2...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
The Statistical Appendix presents historical data as well as projections. It comprises seven sections: Assumptions, What’s New, Data and Conventions, Country Notes, Classification of Countries, Key Data Docu...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498398589.081
ISBN: 9781498398589
Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across the world's countries and regions. The April 2016 WEO examines the causes and implications of these realignments-including the slowdown...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
World Economic Outlook Archives
World Economic Outlook: Financial Sy...
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
April
2016
ISBN: 9781498398589
Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across the world's countries and regions. The April 2016 WEO examines the causes and implications of these realignments-including the slowdown...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
Financial Stability Overview
Since the last Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) in October 2015, overall stability risks have increased (Figures 1.1 and 1.2). The outlook for fi...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
Summary
Trade and financial integration of emerging market economies into the global economy and financial system has increased significantly over the past two decades. As a result,...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
Summary
This chapter describes major insurance sector developments over the past decade and assesses changes in the systemic importance of insurers. Insurance firms play an important...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
Risks to global financial stability have increased since the October 2015 Global Financial Stability Report. In advanced economies, the outlook has deteriorated because of heightened uncertainty and setbacks...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513506777.082
ISBN: 9781513506777
The current Global Financial Stability Report (April 2016) finds that global financial stability risks have risen since the last report in October 2015. The new report finds that the outlook has deteriorated in adv...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
The current Global Financial Stability Report (April 2016) finds that global financial stability risks have risen since the last report in October 2015. The new report finds that the outlook has deteriorated in adv...
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
April
2016
ISBN: 9781513506777
The following remarks were made by the Chair at the conclusion of the Executive Board’s discussion of the Fiscal Monitor, Global Financial Stability Report, and World Economic Outlook on March 2...
Volume/Issue: 2016/48
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
18
March
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475593174.002
ISBN: 9781475593174
This paper discusses State Fiscal Service (SFS) Reform of Ukraine and a plan of action. This mission is a follow-up to the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) mission of July 2014 and has focused on the recently adopte...
Volume/Issue: 2016/48
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
18
March
2016
ISBN: 9781475593174
This paper discusses State Fiscal Service (SFS) Reform of Ukraine and a plan of action. This mission is a follow-up to the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) mission of July 2014 and has focused on the recently adopte...
Volume/Issue: 2016/54
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Eric Monnet
, and
Damien Puy
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513564890
This paper assesses the strength of business cycle synchronization between 1950 and 2014 in a sample of 21 countries using a new quarterly dataset based on IMF archival data. Contrary to the common wisdom, we find...
Volume/Issue: 2016/54
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Eric Monnet
, and
Damien Puy
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
March
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513564890.001
ISBN: 9781513564890
This paper assesses the strength of business cycle synchronization between 1950 and 2014 in a sample of 21 countries using a new quarterly dataset based on IMF archival data. Contrary to the common wisdom, we find...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513525815.002
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/76
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
March
2016
ISBN: 9781513525815
This paper explores key issues affecting the Indian economy and implications for fiscal, monetary, financial sector, and other structural policies. This paper evaluates the build-up of corporate and banking sector...
Volume/Issue: 2016/36
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Elva Bova
,
Paulo Medas
, and
Tigran Poghosyan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475596465.001
ISBN: 9781475596465
Resource-rich countries face large and persistent shocks, especially coming from volatile commodity prices. Given the severity of the shocks, it would be expected that these countries adopt countercyclical fiscal p...
Volume/Issue: 2016/35
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Joong Shik Kang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498376402.001
ISBN: 9781498376402
As the U.S. Fed begins to increase the Federal Funds rate, interest rates in Hong Kong SAR will rise in tandem under the Currency Board system. While domestic economic activity in Hong Kong SAR remained resilient i...
Volume/Issue: 2016/36
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Elva Bova
,
Paulo Medas
, and
Tigran Poghosyan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
February
2016
ISBN: 9781475596465
Resource-rich countries face large and persistent shocks, especially coming from volatile commodity prices. Given the severity of the shocks, it would be expected that these countries adopt countercyclical fiscal p...
Volume/Issue: 2016/35
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Joong Shik Kang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498376402
As the U.S. Fed begins to increase the Federal Funds rate, interest rates in Hong Kong SAR will rise in tandem under the Currency Board system. While domestic economic activity in Hong Kong SAR remained resilient i...
Volume/Issue: 2016/27
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Aqib Aslam
,
Samya Beidas-Strom
,
Rudolfs Bems
,
Oya Celasun
,
Sinem Kılıç Çelik
, and
Zsoka Koczan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
15
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498338158.001
ISBN: 9781498338158
Commodity prices have declined sharply over the past three years, and output growth has slowed considerably among countries that are net exporters of commodities. A critical question for policy makers in these econ...
Volume/Issue: 2016/27
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Aqib Aslam
,
Samya Beidas-Strom
,
Rudolfs Bems
,
Oya Celasun
,
Sinem Kılıç Çelik
, and
Zsoka Koczan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
15
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498338158
Commodity prices have declined sharply over the past three years, and output growth has slowed considerably among countries that are net exporters of commodities. A critical question for policy makers in these econ...
Volume/Issue: 2016/45
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498316699
This paper presents the overview of the Dutch economy. After a double-dip recession that ended in early 2014, a strengthening but moderate recovery led by exports and investment is underway, although lower producti...
Volume/Issue: 2016/45
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498316699.002
ISBN: 9781498316699
This paper presents the overview of the Dutch economy. After a double-dip recession that ended in early 2014, a strengthening but moderate recovery led by exports and investment is underway, although lower producti...
Volume/Issue: 2016/46
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475557695.002
ISBN: 9781475557695
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion by sketching ways in which the taxation equity-efficiency frontier could be shifted outward in the Netherlands. In a nutshell, we argue that significant efficiency ga...
Volume/Issue: 2016/46
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781475557695
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion by sketching ways in which the taxation equity-efficiency frontier could be shifted outward in the Netherlands. In a nutshell, we argue that significant efficiency ga...
Volume/Issue: 2016/46
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781475557695
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion by sketching ways in which the taxation equity-efficiency frontier could be shifted outward in the Netherlands. In a nutshell, we argue that significant efficiency ga...
Volume/Issue: 2016/46
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781475557695
This paper aims to contribute to the discussion by sketching ways in which the taxation equity-efficiency frontier could be shifted outward in the Netherlands. In a nutshell, we argue that significant efficiency ga...
Volume/Issue: 2016/45
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498316699
This paper presents the overview of the Dutch economy. After a double-dip recession that ended in early 2014, a strengthening but moderate recovery led by exports and investment is underway, although lower producti...
Volume/Issue: 2016/45
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
February
2016
ISBN: 9781498316699
This paper presents the overview of the Dutch economy. After a double-dip recession that ended in early 2014, a strengthening but moderate recovery led by exports and investment is underway, although lower producti...
