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Côte d'Ivoire : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Progress Report »

Volume/Issue: 2012/183

Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

Author(s): International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date: 18 July 2012

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475506273.002

ISBN: 9781475506273

Keywords: drinking water, land management, vocational training, social protection, transport services

This paper presents the Poverty Reduction Strategy Implementation Progress Report for Côte d'Ivoire. Since the end of the crisis in April 2011, Côte d'Ivoire has gradually recovered economic activity and social coh...

Kyrgyz Republic : Medium-Term Development Program: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper »

Volume/Issue: 2012/112

Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

Author(s): International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date: 15 May 2012

Language: Russian

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475503449.002

ISBN: 9781475503449

Keywords: public health, social protection, prevention, social services, social development, judicial system, disasters, economic development, anti-corruption, business environment

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discuss...

Malawi : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper »

Volume/Issue: 2012/222

Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

Author(s): International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date: 03 August 2012

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475506129.002

ISBN: 9781475506129

Keywords: environmental management, capacity development, food security, transport infrastructure, industrial development

The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy II (MGDS-II) is a poverty reduction strategy for the period 2006-11, which is aimed at fulfilling Malawi's future developmental aspiration-Vision 2020. The strategy identi...

The Missing Globalization Puzzle »

Volume/Issue: 2002/171

Series: IMF Working Papers

Author(s): Rikhil Bhavnani , Natalia Tamirisa , Arvind Subramanian , and David Coe

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date: 01 October 2002

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451858518.001

ISBN: 9781451858518

Keywords: trade, gravity model, distance, bilateral trade, trade costs, equation, transport costs, international trade, Trade: General, Trade Gravity Model,

The failure of declining trade-related costs to be reflected in estimates of the standard gravity model of bilateral trade might be called the "missing globalization puzzle." This puzzle is most apparent in the est...

The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited : Evidence for Developing Countries »

Volume/Issue: 2015/250

Series: IMF Working Papers

Author(s): David Coady , Valentina Flamini , and Louis Sears

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date: 25 November 2015

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513501390.001

ISBN: 9781513501390

Keywords: Fuel subsidy reform, welfare impact, distribution, transport, fuel, subsidies, fuel prices, subsidy, Incidence, All Countries,

Understanding who benefits from fuel price subsidies and the welfare impact of increasing fuel prices is key to designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing...