Search Results - subject:"CAPITA INCOME"

Low-Income Countries' BRIC Linkage; Are there Growth Spillovers?

Samaké, Issouf; Yang, Yongzheng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Trade and financial ties between low-income countries (LICs) and Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) have expanded rapidly in recent years. This gives rise to the potential for growth to spill over from the latter to the former. We employ a global vector autoregression (GVAR) model to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370561

The Challenge of Food Inflation

Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011

The trends in food inflation over the past 60 years are given. Having thus set the context, the factors driving structural food inflation, which should give us a perspective of the underlying dynamics and the nature of the challenge are also brought out. The policy measures for addressing the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370974

Model of social structure in the study of lifeâ€™s quality of the territoryâ€™s population

Sokolova, Nadezhda - In: Economy of region 1 (2011) 3, pp. 89-94

distribution of population by average per capita income using a system of normative consumer budgets which is used as a frame model …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150412

Natural Disasters and the Effect of Trade on Income: A New Panel IV Approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - CESifo - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224870

Are Middle Eastern Current Account Imbalances Excessive?

Cashin, Paul; Beidas-Strom, Samya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Employing a dynamic panel regression, this study estimates the medium-term current account position for three subgroups of emerging market and developing countries with shared economic characteristics. The fundamental determinants of the macroeconomic balance approach to current account...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293773

Oil Shocks in a Global Perspective; Are they Really That Bad?

Rasmussen, Tobias N.; Roitman, Agustin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Using a comprehensive global dataset, we outline stylized facts characterizing relationships between crude oil prices and macroeconomic developments across the world. Approaching the data from several angles, we find that the impact of higher oil prices on oil-importing economies is generally...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293776

Monetary Policy Dilemmas: Some RBI Perspectives

Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011

Over the last decade, the profile of central banks has gone up. First, we had the Great Moderation - a period of extraordinary benign macroeconomic environment globally, characterized by steady growth in advanced economies and accelerated growth in emerging economies, and low and stable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321504

Economic and Financial Developments in Goa

Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2011

Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank are outlined. Policy challenges ahead...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357879

What Explains Schooling Differences Across Countries?

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2011

This paper provides a theory that explains the cross-country distribution of average years of schooling, as well as the so called human capital premium puzzle. In our theory, credit frictions as well as differences in access to public education, fertility and mortality turn out to be the key...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360196

Impact evaluation of structural adjustment program: a case of Pakistan

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Nawaz, Muhammad Atif; Hussain, Altaf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

negatively affected the employment, income distribution, per capita income and positively affected the inflation. The third … in indirect taxes,adjusting the exchange rate and sliding down of subsidies, on employment, income distribution, per-capita … income and inflation has been analyzed. It is found that the first policy instrument, i.e. decrease in budget deficit has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372518