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The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact »
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Source: The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact
Volume/Issue: 2009/280
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): R. Gelos , Robert Rennhack , James Walsh , and Pelin Berkmen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
ISBN: 9781451874259
Keywords: Global crisis, transmission of shocks, cross-country linkages, current account balance, exchange rate, exchange rates,
We provide one of the first attempts at explaining the differences in the crisis impact across developing countries and emerging markets. Using cross-country regressions to explain the factors driving growth foreca...
Global Poverty Estimates »
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Source: Global Poverty Estimates : A Sensitivity Analysis
Volume/Issue: 2011/234
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Camelia Minoiu , and Shatakshee Dhongde
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2011
ISBN: 9781463922009
Keywords: global poverty, household surveys, international poverty line, poverty line, surveys, statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We...