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Accelerating And Sustaining Growth »
Source: Accelerating And Sustaining Growth : Economic and Political Lessons
Volume/Issue: 2012/185
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Arvind Virmani
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2012
ISBN: 9781475505337
Keywords: High Growth Economies, Policy Reforms, Timing and Phasing., import liberalization, competitive pressure, external shocks, per capita income, per capita growth rate, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
The paper reviews and draws lessons from the experience of fast growing economies including a sub-set of these termed High Growth Economies (HGEs) with a decadal rate of over 7 per cent. It then reviews the history...
CHAPTER IV. Sustaining Growth in Africa »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, May 2005, Sub-Saharan Africa
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 May 2005
ISBN: 9781589064430
Keywords: oil-producing countries, exchange rate regime, exchange rate, floating exchange rate, floating exchange rate regime
Are improvements in growth in SSA since the mid-1990s sustainable? This chapter 1 examines this question in three stages. First, it explores the factors contributing to this recen...
Chapter 3. Perspectives on Global Real Interest Rates »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2014 : Recovery Strengthens, Remains Uneven
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 April 2014
ISBN: 9781484308349
Keywords: inflation, monetary policy, real interest rates, gdp growth, real rates
Real interest rates worldwide have declined substantially since the 1980s and are now in slightly negative territory. Common factors account for much of these movements, highlighting the relevan...
Dimensions of Land Inequality and Economic Development »
Source: Dimensions of Land Inequality and Economic Development
Volume/Issue: 2004/158
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Lennart Erickson , and Dietrich Vollrath
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2004
ISBN: 9781451857610
Keywords: Agricultural inequality, land inequality, institutions, financial development, education provision, gini coefficient, statistics, standard errors, measure of inequality, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
There are several theories linking land inequality with aspects of economic development. Empirical work on these theories has attempted to establish a relationship between land inequality and institutions, financia...
Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty »
Source: Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Volume/Issue: 2011/196
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yifei Huang , and Raju Singh
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
ISBN: 9781462305230
Keywords: financial development, property rights, dependent variable, gini coefficient, descriptive statistics, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, Financial Economics: General,
Recent studies on the relationship between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that, by allowing more entrepreneurs to obtain financing, financial development improves the allocatio...
Global Business Cycles »
Source: Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?
Volume/Issue: 2008/143
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ayhan Kose , Eswar Prasad , and Christopher Otrok
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2008
ISBN: 9781451870015
Keywords: macroeconomic fluctuations, convergence, decoupling, business cycle, globalization period, business cycle fluctuations,
This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups-industrial countries, emerging markets,...
Income inequality: some dimensions of the problem - Excerpts from a chapter of the new World Bank book that explores policies to improve income distribution. »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1974
Volume/Issue: 11/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1974
ISBN: 9781616353186
Keywords: distribution of income, income distribution, gnp, income groups, income levels
This paper examines some dimensions of the problem of income inequality. The conventional approach to income inequality is to define the problem in purely relative terms. A familiar technique for this purpose is to...
The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa »
Source: The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa : Benchmarking the Constraints
Volume/Issue: 2007/52
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Arvind Subramanian , Jonathan Ostry , and Simon Johnson
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
ISBN: 9781451866162
Keywords: Sustained growth, constraints, benchmark, gdp growth, growth rates, trade policies, gdp per capita, Economic Development: General, Economic Development: Regional, Urban
A dozen countries had weak institutions in 1960 and yet sustained high rates of growth subsequently. We use data on their characteristics early in the growth process to create benchmarks with which to evaluate pote...
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth »
Source: Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
Volume/Issue: 2014/2
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s): Jonathan Ostry , Andrew Berg , and Charalambos Tsangarides
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 February 2014
ISBN: 9781484352076
Keywords: Redistribution, Inequality, Growth, gini, redistributive transfers, income distribution, dependent variable, gini coefficient, and Growth,
The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inabi...
Regionalization vs. Globalization »
Source: Regionalization vs. Globalization
Volume/Issue: 2013/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Hideaki Hirata , Ayhan Kose , and Christopher Otrok
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 January 2013
ISBN: 9781557753281
Keywords: Comovement, Synchronization, Trade linkages, Financial linkages, business cycle, business cycle synchronization, regional trade, global trade, Bayesian Analysis, Time-Series Models
Abstract: Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analyze the implications of these linkages for the evolution o...