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Accelerating And Sustaining Growth »
Source: Accelerating And Sustaining Growth : Economic and Political Lessons
Volume/Issue: 2012/185
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Arvind Virmani
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
ISBN: 9781475505337
Keywords: High Growth Economies, Policy Reforms, Timing and Phasing., import liberalization, competitive pressure, external shocks, per capita income, per capita growth rate, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
The paper reviews and draws lessons from the experience of fast growing economies including a sub-set of these termed High Growth Economies (HGEs) with a decadal rate of over 7 per cent. It then reviews the history...
Alleviating Poverty under Structural Adjustment: Proper policies can improve the welfare of the poor over the long run »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1987
Volume/Issue: 24/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1987
ISBN: 9781616353711
Keywords: importing country, exporters, export restraints, exporting country, voluntary export restraints
This paper discusses the structural adjustment in low-income countries. In the first 20 months of its operations, the IMF's structural adjustment facility (SAF) has provided concessional financial assistance to sup...
Assessing the Fragility of Global Trade »
Source: Assessing the Fragility of Global Trade : The Impact of Localized Supply Shocks Using Network Analysis
Volume/Issue: 2017/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yevgeniya Korniyenko , Magali Pinat , and Brian Dew
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 February 2017
ISBN: 9781475578515
Keywords: External shocks, Imports, International trade, International trade, Spillovers, Supply, Manufactured goods, supply shocks, network analysis, Country and Industry Studies of Trade
Anecdotal evidence suggests the existence of specific choke points in the global trade network revealed especially after natural disasters (e.g. hard drive components and Thailand flooding, Japanese auto components...
China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets »
Source: China's Footprint in Global Commodity Markets
Volume/Issue: 2016/06
Series: Spillover Notes
Author(s): Christina Kolerus , Papa N'Diaye , and Christian Saborowski
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 September 2016
ISBN: 9781475541069
Keywords: Crude oil, Food prices, Asia and Pacific, Commodities, Commodity prices, China, Spillovers, Industrial production, footprint, global commodity markets
This note assesses empirically the role Chinese activity plays in global commodities markets, showing that the strength of China's economic activity has a significant bearing on commodity prices, but that the impac...
Demand Spillovers and the Collapse of Trade in the Global Recession »
Source: Demand Spillovers and the Collapse of Trade in the Global Recession
Volume/Issue: 2010/142
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kei-Mu Yi , Rudolfs Bems , and Robert Johnson
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2010
ISBN: 9781455201259
Keywords: Demand spillovers, trade collapse, input-output model, trade elasticity, domestic demand, intermediate goods, world trade, goods imports, global trade, Macroeconomic Aspects Of International Trade And Finance,
This paper uses a global input-output framework to quantify US and EU demand spillovers and the elasticity of world trade to GDP during the global recession of 2008-2009. We find that 20-30 percent of the decline i...
Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs? »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Matthew Slaughter , and Phillip Swagel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 September 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756794.051
ISBN: 9781557756794
Keywords: wages, wage, skilled workers, import competition, international trade
Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more...
Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs? »
Source: Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Matthew Slaughter , and Phillip Swagel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 September 1997
ISBN: 9781557756794
Keywords: wages, wage, skilled workers, import competition, international trade
Globalization—the international integration of goods, technology, labor, and capital—is everywhere to be seen. In any large city in any country, Japanese cars ply the streets, a telephone call can arrange th...
The Effect of Globalization on Wages in the Advanced Economies »
Source: The Effect of Globalization on Wages in the Advanced Economies
Volume/Issue: 1997/43
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Phillip Swagel , and Matthew Slaughter
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 1997
ISBN: 9781451846294
Keywords: Globalization, trade and wages, capital mobility, wage, skilled workers, import competition, international trade
This paper examines the effect of globalization on labor markets in the advanced economies, focusing particularly on the claim that increased economic integration has widened the gap between the wages of more skill...
Global Dispersion of Current Accounts: Is the Universe Expanding? »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 3
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 July 2009
ISBN: 9781589068209
Keywords: trade openness, trade liberalization, import duties, transition economies, trade barriers
Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on crosscountry analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor. This paper applies a transpare...
Global Imbalances, Productivity Differentials, and Financial Integration »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 3
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 July 2009
ISBN: 9781589068209
Keywords: trade openness, trade liberalization, import duties, transition economies, trade barriers
Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on crosscountry analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor. This paper applies a transpare...