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The World Bank and the world’s poorest: IV : The fourth and fifth articles in a continuing series that explains how the Bank is responding to the challenge of finding ways to reduce poverty in member countries »
Source: Finance & Development, March 1979
Volume/Issue: 16/1
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 1979
ISBN: 9781616353360
Keywords: capital markets, access to capital markets, primary school, teacher training, primary education
This paper focuses on the Fourth Annual Review of Project Performance Audit Results. The paper highlights that the purpose of the Review is to provide lessons of experience relevant to the World Bank's current prac...

Voluntary Debt Reduction »
Source: Voluntary Debt Reduction : Incentives and Welfare
Volume/Issue: 1988/97
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 November 1988
ISBN: 9781451949353
Keywords: growth rate, external debt, domestic saving, gnp, economic growth
This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of long-term growth performance in a sample of 55 developing countries grouped by income levels. The evidence indicates that a model incorporating the savi...

Loss of Correspondent Banking Relationships in the Caribbean »
Source: Loss of Correspondent Banking Relationships in the Caribbean : Trends, Impact, and Policy Options
Volume/Issue: 2017/209
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Trevor Alleyne , Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe , Thomas Dowling , Dmitriy Kovtun , Alla Myrvoda , Joel Chiedu Okwuokei , and Jarkko Turunen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 September 2017
ISBN: 9781484320686
Keywords: Dominica, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Asia and Pacific, Bahamas, The, Barbados, Small states, Grenada, Haiti, Western Hemisphere
Banks across the Caribbean have lost important Correspondent Banking Relationships (CBRs). The macroeconomic impact has so far been limited, in part because banks either have multiple relationships or have been suc...

Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean »
Source: Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean : Engines of Growth and Macroeconomic Stabilizers?
Volume/Issue: 2017/144
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kimberly Beaton , Svetlana Cerovic , Misael Galdamez , Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov , Franz Loyola , Zsoka Koczan , Bogdan Lissovolik , Jan Martijn , Yulia Ustyugova , and Joyce Wong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 June 2017
ISBN: 9781484303641
Keywords: Dominica, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Costa Rica, Antigua and Barbuda, Asia and Pacific, Bahamas, The, Barbados, Belize, El Salvador
Outward migration has been an important phenomenon for countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), particularly those in Central America and the Caribbean. This paper examines recent trends in outward migr...