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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Republic of Kosovo: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
This Selected Issues paper on Kosovo discusses various challenges and opportunities in the public infrastructure domain. Given the very low initial stocks, largely due to the sharp depletion of capital stock during the conflicts in the 1990s, higher investment rates are needed. The resources available from international development partners, including the European Union (EU), the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, are a unique opportunity to leverage and accelerate the implementation of priority projects. Strengthening Kosovo’s investment framework is key to achieving this objective. Kosovo faces significant public infrastructure gaps, which constrain private sector development. Scaling-up public investment will raise gross domestic product growth potential and accelerate income convergence toward the EU average level. The priority project list has helped the authorities to prioritize plans and facilitate the discussions and negotiations with donors and International Financial Institutions (IFI). However, implementation so far has been modest, despite the new investment clause of the fiscal rule exempting IFI-financed projects from the deficit ceiling.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Kosovo; lending; amount; credit growth; scheme outcome; EU accession process; IFI financing; Western Balkans peer; Credit; Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Infrastructure; Bank credit; Europe; Central and Eastern Europe; Western Europe
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Mid-Term Development Strategy—Joint Staff Assessment
International Monetary Fund
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Poverty Reduction Strategy paper reports that significant progress has been made since the late 1990s in building both a market economy and a single economic space. GDP growth has slowed recently following the post-conflict bounce, and the current account deficit of 18 percent of GDP in 2003 is well above levels associated with external sustainability. The slowdown in GDP growth has occurred even though GDP had not recovered to pre-war levels at the end of 2003.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; government; MTDS; Entity government; government employee; BH authorities; PRSP preparation process; canton government; MTDS reform agenda; tax authorities; Privatization; Poverty reduction strategy; Public sector; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Albania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix paper examines the issue of dollarization in Albania against the background of rapidly evolving banking, policy and prudential systems, and of growing importance of monetary policy as a tool for demand management. The period covered is 1998—the immediate aftermath of the pyramid scheme collapse—to the present, which is a period of impressive, though gradual, transformation rather than of abrupt structural changes. The paper also analyzes the poverty situation in Albania, and discusses the poverty alleviation mechanisms that have worked.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Albania; foreign currency; migration flow; education attainment; school expectancy; deposit rate differentials; foreign currency deposit; payments dollarization; poverty line; banking sector; Dollarization; Income; Remittances; Europe; Central Asia; South America; Middle East
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Mid-Term Development Strategy
International Monetary Fund
Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt, and to bring the current account deficit to a sustainable level through fiscal consolidation. The strategy is to attract more foreign investment, create conditions for a more efficient privatization process, and to ensure new cycles of donor assistance.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; gross domestic product; private sector; banking sector; feasibility study; investment funds; production system; economic development; Medium-Term Development Strategy; public expenditure; BiH law; foreign trade; Health care; Global; Europe; Eastern Europe
Cover Summary Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, September 28-30, 1999
Summary Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors, September 28-30, 1999
International Monetary Fund

Abstract

This annual publication is a record of the IMF's Annual Meeting and contains the opening and closing addresses of the Chairman of the Board of Governors, presentation of the Annual Report by the Managing Director, statements of Governors, committee reports, resolutions, and a list of delegates. Usually published in March.

Keywords:
AS; poverty; fund; country; debt relief; debt relief program; bank-fund cooperation; chairman of the Development Committee; development bank; donor country; debt reduction initiative; Poverty reduction; Poverty reduction strategy; Poverty reduction and development; Global; Africa; Europe; East Asia; Asia and Pacific