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IMF Working Papers ($15.00)
04/29: “Inflation Dynamics in the Dominican Republic,” Oral Williams and Olumuyiwa S. Adedeji
04/30: “Fiscal Sustainability in Heavily Indebted Countries Dependent on Nonrenewable Resources: The Case of Gabon,” Joseph Ntamatungiro
04/31: “Imperfect Capital Mobility in an Open Economy Model of Capital Accumulation,” Vladimir Klyuev
04/32: “The Decentralization Dilemma in India,” Catriona M. Purfield
04/33: “An Option-Based Approach to Bank Vulnerabilities in Emerging Markets,” Jorge Chan-Lau, Arnaud Jobert, and Janet Kong
04/34: “The Determinants of International Portfolio Holdings and Home Bias,” Hamid Faruqee, Shujing Li, and Isabel K.Yan
04/35: “Liberalized Markets Have More Stable Exchange Rates: Short-Run Evidence from Four Transition Countries,” Ales Bulir
04/36: “China: International Trade and WTO Accession,” Thomas R. Rumbaugh and Nicolas R. Blancher
04/37: “Competitiveness in Bulgaria: An Assessment of the Real Effective Exchange Rate,” Dimitar Chobanov and Piritta Sorsa
04/38: “The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance: Grants vs. Loan Rollovers,” Alexandros T. Mourmouras and Wolfgang Mayer
04/39: “Autocorrelation-Corrected Standard Errors in Panel Probits: An Application to Currency Crisis Prediction,” Andrew Berg and Rebecca N. Coke
04/40: “And Schumpeter Said, ‘This Is How Thou Shalt Grow’: Further Quest For Economic Growth in Poor Countries,” Philippe Beaugrand
04/41: “Forecasting Commodity Prices: Futures Versus Judgment,” Chakriya Bowman and Aasim M. Husain
04/42: “Public Expenditure Management in Francophone Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis,” Yaya Moussa
04/43: “India in the 1980s and 1990s: A Triumph of Reforms,” Arvid Panagariya
04/44: “Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets,” Andrea Pescatori and Amadou N. Sy
04/45: “A Multivariate Filter for Measuring Potential Output and the NAIRU: Application to the Czech Republic,” Jaromir Benes and Papa N’Diaye
04/46: “Domestic Debt Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Jakob E. Christensen
IMF Country Reports ($15.00)
(Country name represents an Article IV consultation)
04/18: Indonesia: Eleventh Review Under the Extended Arrangement
04/19: Nicaragua: Joint Staff Assessment of the PRSP Second Progress Report
04/20: Vietnam: PRSP Progress Report
04/21: Lesotho
04/22: Albania: Third Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the PRGF, Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, and Financing Assurances Review
04/23: Lesotho: Selected Issues And Statistical Appendix
04/24: Pakistan: PRSP
04/25: Vietnam: PRSP
04/26: Georgia: Ex Post Assessment of Georgia’s Performance Under IMF-Supported Programs
04/27: Bangladesh: First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the PRGF and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria
PRGF=Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
PRSP=Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
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