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VI Trends in Wage Inequality, 1981–2001 »
Source: Hong Kong SAR : Meeting the Challenges of Integration with the Mainland
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): William Lee , Jorge Chan-Lau , Dora Iakova , Papa N'Diaye , Tao Wang , Ida Liu , Hong Liang , and Eswar Prasad
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 February 2004
ISBN: 9781589062948
Keywords: Economic conditions, Hong Kong SAR, prices, wage, expenditure, wages, government expenditure
Income inequality in Hong Kong SAR has increased rapidly over the last twenty years (Figure 6.1). The Gini coefficient, a commonly used summary measure of household income inequalit...
III Key Features I and 2: Broad Ownership and Participation and Embedding the PRGF in the Overall Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction »
Source: Is the PRGF Living Up to Expectations?
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Benedict Clements , Gabriela Inchauste , Nita Thacker , Thomas Dorsey , Shamsuddin Tareq , Emanuele Baldacci , Sanjeev Gupta , and Mark Plant
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 26 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589061125
Keywords: conditionality, pem, poverty reduction, structural conditionality, public spending
The interrelated key features 1 and 2 set out several aspects of the expected relationship between the PRGF-supported program and the PRSP. Specifically. PRGF-supported programs should be consistent with, an...
Thailand : The Road to Sustained Growth »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Erik Offerdal , Kalpana Kochhar , Louis Dicks-Mireaux , Jianping Zhou , Mauro Mecagni , and Balázs Horváth
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 December 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756039.084
ISBN: 9781557756039
Keywords: private investment, wages, wage, fiscal policy, adjustment period
Since the mid-1960s, Thailand's growth performance has been exceptional. Although hard hit by the external shocks fo the late 1970s and the early 1980s that proved severely destabilizing to many developing countrie...
VI Prospects for Self-Sustaining Growth in Eastern Germany »
Source: United Germany : The First Five Years: Performance and Policy Issues
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Karl Habermeier , Robert Corker , Robert Feldman , Tessa Van der Willigen , and H. Vittas
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 June 1995
ISBN: 9781557754721
Keywords: unemployment, wage, inflation, wages, employment
Considerable progress has been made in restructuring the economy of eastern Germany. The system of economic planning in existence at the time of economic and monetary union in mid-1990 has been replaced by a...