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Reform proposals from developing Asia: finding a win-win strategy [PDF]

Recipient countries and creditors have different perspectives on proposals for reform of the international financial architecture. The difference arises from varying perceptions of the causes of the East Asian crisis.
Goyal, Ashima
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Can Personal Freedom Drive Economic Complexity?

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on economic complexity has identified various factors that enable countries to achieve higher levels of productive sophistication. However, the role of personal freedom as a distinct driver has been overlooked. This paper argues that by providing the necessary environment for individuals to explore new ideas, be creative and challenge
Vítor Castro
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Reform and Economic Performance: Evidence from 20 Developing Countries [PDF]

Do adjustment policies assist or retard growth? This paper presents data on economic performance (aggregate and sectoral growth, inflation, investment and external account) for 20 countries.
Leavy, Jennifer, White, Howard
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

The aggregate effects of government income transfers shocks: EU evidence. [PDF]

SERIEs (Berl), 2023
Párraga Rodríguez S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Outlook for International Monetary System Reform in 2011: A Preliminary Report [PDF]

Reform of the international monetary system was placed on the agenda of the Group of 20 (G-20) a year ago at the initiative of the incoming French leadership of the G-20.
Edwin M. Truman
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Russia and the IMF: pseudo lending for pseudo reforms [PDF]

, 2002
This paper argues that the IMF financial and good technical assistance to Russia in the 1990s has been less than generous. Not only the size of the assistance might have not been adequate but also the timing and actual disbursements of these funds were ...
Nikolic, M.
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Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
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What Are The Drivers of Labor Productivity in Italy?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel sign restriction identification within a structural Bayesian vector autoregression (VAR) to analyse how labour productivity responds to supply and demand shocks and to quantify the contribution of shocks to cyclical fluctuations.
Josué Diwambuena, Francesco Ravazzolo
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSING THE RISKS IN THE PRIVATE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES [PDF]

The paper argues that private provision of water and electricity services requires a higher burden of proof than policies reforming existing state services.
Nancy ALEXANDER, Tim KESSLER
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