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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Mauritius: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes the labor market of Mauritius. It highlights that the high level of youth unemployment in Mauritius points to deficiencies in education and training. There are also significant rigidities in the functioning of the labor market that aggravate the problem. In particular, the Mauritian labor market is highly regulated and the relevant institutions operate according to a legalistic approach in which economic criteria play a relatively minor role.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; rate of return; money demand; firm; Mauritian rupee; net acquisition; yield; opening balance; time deposit; cash inflow; opportunity cost; Currencies; Agricultural commodities; Demand for money; Treasury bills and bonds; Caribbean
Cover IMF Working Papers
Policy towards Commodity Shocks in Developing Countries
Ms. Jan Gunning
and
Mr. Paul Collier
On the basis of a comparative study of 23 episodes involving commodity price shocks we find that both the public and private sectors typically save around half of a windfall gain resulting from a price rise. We argue that private windfalls should be left with the private sector rather than taxed. The focus of policy towards windfalls should be monetary rather than fiscal. The central bank should accommodate aggregate changes in the demand for financial assets. The private sector will initially wish to increase its claims on the central bank as it saves the windfall, but will then reduce them as portfolios are switched into real assets.
Keywords:
WP; private sector; rate; price level; savings rate; financial asset; rate of return; asset demand; investment rate; windfall income; Income; Monetary base; Reserves accumulation; Agricultural commodities; Demand for money; Africa
Cover SDRs, Currencies, and Gold
SDRs, Currencies, and Gold
Sixth Survey of New Legal Developments
Mr. Joseph Gold

Abstract

This paper presents the sixth survey of developments in international and national monetary law and practice involving special drawing rights (SDRs), currencies, and gold. The paper highlights that a member’s currency held by the IMF in accounts other than the General Resources Account is not subject under the IMF’s Articles of Agreement to the principle of maintenance of value in terms of the SDR that applies to currency held in the IMF’s General Resources Account. The IMF has express or implied powers to invest holdings in accounts to which no obligation to maintain value is attached.

Keywords:
PAM; procedure; SDR; currency; exchange rate; unit of account; currency arrangement; SDR concept; gold stock; use of the SDR; Multiple currency practices; Exchange rates; Currencies; Gold; Exchange rate adjustments; Global; Europe; West Africa; Southern Africa; North America; Caribbean
Cover Summary Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, 1963
Summary Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, 1963
International Monetary Fund. Secretary's Department

Abstract

The speeches made by officials attending the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings are published in this volume, along with the press communiqués issued by the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee at the conclusion of the meetings.

Keywords:
AS; I-Shuan sun; articles of agreement; fund study ways and means; central bank Governors; development assistance committee; Currencies; International liquidity; International monetary system; Exports; Gold; Central America; Africa; Europe; Central Africa; Eastern Europe; fund stand-by arrangement