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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Cameroon: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper on Cameroon identifies impediments to growth acceleration in the country. A two-step approach is followed: first, the characteristics of middle-income countries currently experiencing growth accelerations are examined; and, second, the extent to which Cameroon shares these characteristics is assessed. The focus of the analysis is a set of variables the literature has identified as helping to accelerate growth. This paper also presents a possible fiscal strategy for Cameroon based on the permanent income approach.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Cameroon; growth acceleration; spending; nonoil GDP; oil sector; GDP growth; IMF staff; oil revenue; Credit; Commercial banks; Oil prices; GDP measurement; Oil; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Middle East; East Asia; North Africa; Central Asia
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In Finance, Size Matters
Mr. Jong-Kun Lee
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Mr. Biaggio Bossone
This study investigates the relationship between production efficiency in financial intermediation and financial system size. The study predicts and tests for the existence of "systemic scale economies" (SSEs), whereby value-maximizing intermediaries operating in large systems are expected to have lower production costs and lower costs of risk absorption and reputation signaling than intermediaries operating in small systems. The study investigates different channels through which the SSEs work their effects through the intermediaries and estimates such effects using a large banking data panel. The study shows strongly supporting evidence in favor of SSEs. It also finds that the institutional environment, the risk environment, and market concentration affect significantly the production efficiency of financial intermediaries.
Keywords:
WP; financial market; equity capital; production efficiency; shadow price
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Finance & Development, December 1968
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
This paper presents highlights of the IMF Meetings in 1968. The main themes of the IMF Annual Meeting were referred to by President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States in his address at the opening joint session. He described 1968 as “a year of crisis in financial markets,” and the special drawing rights facility as a “major step in international financial cooperation.” Many IMF Governors returned to the theme that the containment of the potentially disruptive consequences of the events of the past year was due chiefly to a remarkable degree of international cooperation and collaboration.
Keywords:
FD; F&D; country; currency; repurchase; IFC investment commitment; fund stand-by arrangement; staff director; central bank open market operations; courses of action; Currencies; Income; Commercial banks; National income; Credit; Caribbean; Africa; North America; Global; North Africa; East Africa; Western Europe
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Finance & Development, June 1964
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
This paper describes the origin of the IMF, its organization, and its method of working. The IMF has as its aim the economic prosperity of the whole world. The IMF pursues an active program of economic research. For this purpose, it systematically collects and publishes data on international trade, holdings of gold and foreign currencies, national income, price indices, restrictions on international payments, international movements of capital, and so on. All this is part of the background against which discussions of problems of individual members are carried out by the Executive Board.
Keywords:
FD; F&D; fund; Fund's holding; bank; International Monetary Fund stand-by arrangement; bank staff member; bank mission; members of the fund; Currencies; Inflation; National income; Loans; Western Europe; Africa; Western Hemisphere; Europe; Middle East; Central America; Asia and Pacific
Cover IMF Staff Papers
IMF Staff papers: Volume 6 No. 2
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
This paper examines the effect transactions with the IMF have on the monetary situation within a country when the foreign exchange purchased from the IMF is used to meet a balance of payments deficit. In some countries, the national currency counterpart is kept on deposit to the credit of the IMF at the central bank. In other countries, the government substitutes a noninterest-bearing note for the national currency counterpart of a transaction with the IMF. It is with the effects of the latter practice that this paper is primarily concerned. The effect of a balance of payments deficit on the money supply will be offset if credit is expanded to finance a government deficit, investment by business, or spending by consumers. The ultimate effect on the money supply will depend upon how the government deals with the national currency turned over to it by the Exchange Equalization Account. Considerable caution is required in concluding that a balance of payments deficit is likely to be moderate and temporary.
Keywords:
SP; advance deposit; money supply; advance; production; gold production; deposit requirement; on the money money supply; Gold; Imports; National income; Trade balance; Mining sector; Africa