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The December issue of the IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly guide to research issues at the IMF.
Staff Discussion Notes showcase new policy-related analysis and research by IMF departments. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and are aimed at a broad audience interested in economic policy issues. For more information on this series and to download the papers in this series, please visit: www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/createx/Publications.aspx?page=sdn
No. 15/16
Fair Taxation in the Middle East and North Africa
Andrew Jewell, Mario Mansour, Pritha Mitra, and Carlo Sdralevich
No. 15/17
Financial Inclusion: Can It Meet Multiple Macroeconomic Goals?
Ratna Sahay, Martin Čihák, Papa N’Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Srobona Mitra, Annette Kyobe, Yen Nian Mooi, and Seyed Reza Yousefi
No. 15/18
From Ambition to Execution: Policies in Support of Sustainable Development Goals
Stefania Fabrizio, Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Catherine Pattillo, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Andrea Presbitero, Baoping Shang, Geneviève Verdier, Marie-Therese Camilleri, Kazuaki Washimi, Lisa Kolovich, Monique Newiak, Martin Čihák, Inci Otker, Felipe Zanna, and Carol Baker
No. 15/19
A Strategy for Resolving Europe’s Problem Loans
Shekhar Aiyar, Wolfgang Bergthaler, Jose M. Garrido, Anna Ilyina, Andreas Jobst, Kenneth Kang, Dmitriy Kovtun, Yan Liu, Dermot Monaghan, and Marina Moretti
No. 15/20
Catalyst for Change: Empowering Women and Tackling Income Inequality
Christian Gonzales, Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Kochhar, Monique Newiak, and Tlek Zeinullayev
No. 15/21
The Fiscal Consequences of Shrinking Populations
Benedict Clements, Kamil Dybczak, Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, and Mauricio Soto
No. 15/22
Wage Moderation in Crises
Jörg Decressin, Raphael Espinoza, Ioannis Halikias, Daniel Leigh, Prakash Loungani, Paulo Medas, Susanna Mursula, Martin Schindler, Antonio Spilimbergo, and TengTeng Xu
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