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Appendix 2: Measures Used to Characterize Global Supply Chains »
Source: Changing Patterns of Global Trade
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Nagwa Riad , Luca Errico , Christian Henn , Christian Saborowski , Mika Saito , and Jarkko Turunen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 January 2012
ISBN: 9781616352073
Keywords: Emerging markets, Developed countries, International trade, Trade integration, supply chain, gross exports, trade flows, global trade, technology exports
Various measures can be used to characterize global supply chains. Hummels, Ishii, and Yi (2001) were the first to measure the value of imported contents embodied in a country’s exp...
Appendix 4: New Drivers of Global Trade: Key Stylized Facts »
Source: Changing Patterns of Global Trade
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Nagwa Riad , Luca Errico , Christian Henn , Christian Saborowski , Mika Saito , and Jarkko Turunen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 January 2012
ISBN: 9781616352073
Keywords: Emerging markets, Developed countries, International trade, Trade integration, supply chain, gross exports, trade flows, global trade, technology exports
Changes in export composition by trading partner strongly reflect the emergence of EMEs (Figure A4.1). As a consequence, those countries more strongly exposed to EMEs generally expe...
1. Asia and Pacific’s Outlook: Still Leading Global Growth »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2015 : Stabilizing and Outperforming Other Regions
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 April 2015
ISBN: 9781498339841
Keywords: Regional Economic Outlook, Economic integration, Market economies, Real sector, Development, Financial crises, Regional economics, Economies, inflation, exchange
Asia and Pacific’s position as the growth engine of the world economy has intensified in recent years. While in 2000 the region accounted for less than 30 percent of world output, by 2014 this c...
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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Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality1 »
Source: Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
Volume/Issue: 2015/243
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Davide Furceri , and Prakash Loungani
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 November 2015
ISBN: 9781513531083
Keywords: Inequality, Capital Account Openness, Crises, Institutions, capital account, liberalization, capital account liberalization, standard deviations, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, All Countries
This paper examines the distributional impact of capital account liberalization. Using panel data for 149 countries from 1970 to 2010, we find that, on average, capital account liberalization reforms increase inequ...
Changing Patterns of Global Trade »
Source: Changing Patterns of Global Trade
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Nagwa Riad , Luca Errico , Christian Henn , Christian Saborowski , Mika Saito , and Jarkko Turunen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 January 2012
ISBN: 9781616352073
Keywords: Emerging markets, Developed countries, International trade, Trade integration, supply chain, gross exports, trade flows, global trade, technology exports
Changing Patterns of Global Trade outlines the factors underlying important shifts in global trade that have occurred in recent decades. The emergence of global supply chains and their increasing role in trade patt...
Chapter 15 A Market View of the Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on Global Financial Markets »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
After having been the center of attention through most of 2007 and the first half of 2008, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) returned to relative obscurity once the commodity price bubble burst in mid-2008. Whil...
Chapter 12. China’s Road to Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability: A Systemic Perspective »
Source: China's Road to Greater Financial Stability : Some Policy Perspectives
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Jonathan Fiechter , and Tao Sun
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 August 2013
ISBN: 9781616354060
Keywords: banking, financial system, financial institutions
As China becomes a major player in the global economy, what are the key reform issues that would deliver systemic stability with growth in the financial sector? Finance is a key factor in support of real sec...
Chapter 5. Combating Poverty in Low-Income Countries »
Source: International Monetary Fund Handbook : Its Functions, Policies, and Operations
Series: Manuals & Guides
Author(s): Parmeshwar Ramlogan , and Bernhard Fritz-Krockow
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 April 2007
ISBN: 9781589066250
Keywords: balance of payments, debt relief, standards, credit tranche, hipc initiative
A central objective of the IMF in low-income countries is to support sustained poverty reduction through policies that promote economic growth, employment generation, and targeted assistance to the poor. Thi...
CHAPTER 9. Comment on “Global Imbalances: In Midstream?” »
Source: Reconstructing the World Economy
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): Il SaKong , and Olivier Blanchard
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 July 2010
ISBN: 9781589069770
Keywords: inflation, current account, financial system, central bank, monetary policy
This is an important contribution to the literature on global imbalances, which has been bedevilled hitherto by much muddy thinking. Blanchard and Milesi-Ferretti begin by making the important point that cur...