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Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts* »
Source: Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts
Volume/Issue: 2009/276
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Jaewoo Lee , Yongsung Chang , and Sun-Bin Kim
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
ISBN: 9781451874211
Keywords: Distribution of Current Account, Incomplete Markets, Frictions, current accounts, current account imbalances, current account balances, current account deficit,
We undertake a quantitative analysis of the dispersion of current accounts in an open economy version of incomplete insurance model, incorporating important market frictions in trade and financial flows. Calibrated...
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1994 »
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1994
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451944938.011
ISBN: 9781451944938
Keywords: balance of payments, current account, current account balance, repurchases, current account deficit
The Annual Report to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during any given year. There are five chapters: (1) Overview, (2) Developments in the Global Economy and Financial Markets, (3)...
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1988 »
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1988
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451944716.011
ISBN: 9781451944716
Keywords: balance of payments, repurchases, current account, general resources account, exporting countries
The Annual Report to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during any given year. There are five chapters: (1) Overview, (2) Developments in the Global Economy and Financial Markets, (3)...
Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending »
Source: Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending
Volume/Issue: 2002/193
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Curzio Giannini , and Carlo Cottarelli
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
ISBN: 9781451859829
Keywords: Capital Account Crises Contents, capital inflows, private capital inflows, private capital, current account, capital outflow, International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions, International Lending and Debt Problems, Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: General, International
During the 1990s, the concept of "catalytic official finance" (COF) gained prominence in policy debates. The concept revolves around the idea that the propensity of investors to lend to a country increases when the...
Benin: 2006 Article IV Consultation, First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria »
Source: Benin : 2006 Article IV Consultation, First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria
Volume/Issue: 2007/6
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 January 2007
ISBN: 9781451803488
Keywords: external debt, debt service, debt relief, current account, balance of payments
This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic performance of Benin has been relatively subdued since 2003 after a decade of high growth. Slow economic growth has reflected limited progress in addressin...
Block I. Global Imbalances, Exchange Rate Issues, and Debt »
Source: Dollars, Debt, and Deficits : Sixty Years After Bretton Woods
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589064539
Keywords: Deficit financing, Budget deficits, exchange rate, public debt, foreign assets, current account, foreign liabilities
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Broad-based participation: Uganda is first country to receive assistance under Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility »
Source: IMF Survey : Volume 29, Issue 01
Volume/Issue: 29/1
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2000
ISBN: 9781451937688
Keywords: foreign exchange, structural reforms, international monetary fund, current account, economic policies
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen...
Burkina Faso: Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and the Third Annual Program »
Source: Burkina Faso : Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and the Third Annual Program
Volume/Issue: 2002/3
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 January 2002
ISBN: 9781451803686
Keywords: expenditure, expenditures, balance of payments, central bank, current account
This paper examines Burkina Faso's Fourth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and the Third Annual Program. The program remains broadly on track. The economic downturn of 2000 trailed into...
Chapter 4. Are Global Imbalances at a Turning Point? »
Source: World Economic Outlook, October 2014 : Legacies, Clouds, Uncertainties
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 October 2014
ISBN: 9781498331555
Keywords: public investment, current account, gas, current account balance, natural gas
Global current account (“flow”) imbalances have narrowed significantly since their peak in 2006, and their configuration has changed markedly in the process. The imbalances that used to be the m...
CHAPTER 12 Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending »
Source: IMF-Supported Programs : Recent Staff Research
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): Alessandro Rebucci , and Ashoka Mody
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 2006
ISBN: 9781589063617
Keywords: International Monetary Fund, current account, capital flows, private capital, private capital flows, conditionality
Introduction Ever since Walter Bagehot’s times, it has been recognized that emergency liquidity support, to be effective, must in principle be unlimited. Of course, the precept shoul...