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Cover IMF Research Perspectives
IMF Research Perspectives: Spring-Summer 2020
IMF Research Perspectives Spring-Summer 2020
Keywords:
IRB; worker; view IMF research; MARTINEZ PERIA interview
Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development, September 2018
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
Finance and Development
Keywords:
FD; F&D; economy; IMF's Asia; government; coin; anti-corruption office
Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development, September 2018
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department
This paper discusses that from shifting demographics to climate change, Southeast Asia confronts a host of challenges. Summoning them will require both resilience and flexibility. Advances in artificial intelligence, including robotics, together with innovations such as 3-D printing and new composite materials, will transform manufacturing processes, making them less labor-intensive while creating opportunities for new products. This will enable new ways of making things and change the drivers of competitiveness. There will be indirect effects as well. For example, aircraft manufacturers, taking advantage of new composite materials such as carbon fibers, have developed a class of superlong-haul aircraft that could bring more tourists to Southeast Asia as relatively cheap point-to-point travel options emerge. The region should still enjoy synergies from globalization and other modes of economic integration, but the form and shape of such integration could change. For Southeast Asia, the next couple of decades could prove exhilarating in terms of the opportunities presented by technology and global growth, but also tumultuous because of the continuing risks, such as those posed by an unreformed and unstable international financial architecture. There clearly is much hard work to be done. Policymakers still have not gotten everything right, but they are heading in the right direction.
Keywords:
FD; F&D; economy; IMF's Asia; government; coin; anti-corruption office; shrinking world trade of the Great Depression; policy recommendation; coin design; remittance trap; Gender diversity; Climate change; Women; Southeast Asia; Global; Asia and Pacific; Sub-Saharan Africa; Mekong
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Inequality Overhang
Mr. Francesco Grigoli
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Adrian Robles
The linearity of the relationship between income inequality and economic development has been long questioned. While theory provides arguments for which the shape of relationship may be positive for low levels of inequality and negative for high ones, most of the empirical literature assumes a linear specification finding conflicting results. Employing an innovative empirical approach robust to endogeneity, we find pervasive evidence of nonlinearities. In particular, similar to the debt overhang literature, we identify an inequality overhang level in that the slope of the relationship between income inequality and economic development switches from positive to negative at a net Gini of about 27 percent. We also find that in an environment characterized by widespread financial inclusion and high income concentration, rising income inequality has a larger negative impact on economic development because banks may curtail credit to customers at the lower end of the income distribution. On the positive side, a sufficiently high female labor participation can act as a shock absorber reducing such negative impact, possibly through a more efficient allocation of resources.
Keywords:
WP; economic development; net Gini coefficient; heterogeneity; Gini; income distribution; income inequality; income levels; growth; nonlinearities; market Gini coefficient; labor participation; income concentration; Gini value; income variable; Personal income; Women; Financial inclusion; Western Hemisphere
Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development, September 1991
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
We need to understand more deeply a number of critical issues that confront the World Bank and its member countries before we can transform knowledge into effective actions
Keywords:
FD; F&D; country; policy; exchange rate; government; expenditure; Third World government; women farmer; capital mobility; family planning program; Third World country; Defense spending; Women; Exchange rates; Exchange rate policy; Exports; Sub-Saharan Africa; Asia and Pacific; South Asia; Middle East; Eastern Europe
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Finance & Development, June 1989
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF’s own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.
Keywords:
FD; F&D; firm; market; good; country; currency; commodity price; EC country; commune agriculture; EPZ firm; EC market; government policy; Commodity prices; Women; Wages; Currencies; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Global; East Asia; Asia and Pacific