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An Approach to the Estimation of Inequality in Reserve Distribution »
Source: IMF Staff papers : Volume 21 No. 3
Volume: XXI
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1974
ISBN: 9781451969344
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Central Bank Autonomy: Lessons from Global Trends »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 2
Volume: 56
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 June 2009
ISBN: 9781589067950
Keywords: labor productivity growth, employment, labor productivity, labor shares
China’s growth performance since the start of economic reforms in 1978 has been impressive, but the gains have not been distributed equally across provinces. We use a nonparametric approach to analyze the va...

The International Monetary Fund and the global Spread of Privatization »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 51, No. 2
Volume: 51
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 July 2004
ISBN: 9781589063235
Keywords: privatization revenues, privatization programs, privatization transactions, privatization program, American Dollar, Autoregression, Cohort Analysis, Conditionality (finance), Correlation (statistics), Effect Of Education On Economic Development
This second issue for 2004 contains 8 new papers, including notable contributions from: Nancy Brune, Geoffrey Garrett, and Bruce Kogut on the global spread of privatization; and Mark P. Taylor and Elena T. Branson...

Is Africa Integrated in the Global Economy? »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 3
Volume: 50
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): Robert Flood
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 25 November 2003
ISBN: 9781589062030
Keywords: unit root, real exchange rate, confidence intervals, confidence interval, serial correlation
This paper analyzes the issue of purchasing power parity using real effective exchange rate (REER) data for 20 industrial countries in the post-Bretton Woods period. The serial correlation-robust median-unbiased es...

Limits of Conditionality in Poverty Reduction Programs »
Source: IMF Staff Papers : Volume 49: Special Issue: IMF Annual Research Conference
Volume: 49
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 November 2002
ISBN: 9781589061231
Keywords: exchange rate, real exchange, exchange rates, real exchange rate, real interest, IMF Staff papers,
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The Missing Globalization Puzzle: Evidence of the Declining Importance of Distance »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 54, No. 1
Volume: 54
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 26 September 2007
ISBN: 9781589066052
Keywords: forecast errors, forecast error, serial correlation, test statistics, output growth
This is the first issue of IMF Staff Papers published under a special partnership between the IMF and Palgrave Macmillan. Very little will change with regard to the journal's visual appearance, though significant s...