Search Results - subject:"CAPITA INCOME"

Coon, Randal C.; Leistritz, F. Larry - 2006

the state's rural counties. Per capita income (adjusted for inflation) increased 32 percent statewide from 1990 to 2004 …. The 2004 value ($29,247) was about 89 percent of U.S. per capita income, compared to 79 percent in 1990. Retail sales also …

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Integrating Poor Countries into the World Trading System

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countriesâ€™ trade policies and their development strategies. However, although greater trade openness promises faster growth for poor countries, it also presents risks to those with...

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Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict; The Case of the Central African Republic

Lewis, Mark; Nachega, Jean-Claude; Bakhache, Said; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in...

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Regional Convergence in Latin America

Sutton, Bennett; Lindow, Genevieve; Serra, Maria Isabel; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper presents empirical evidence on convergence of per capita output for regions within six large middle-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several exogenous sectoral shocks and differences in steady states...

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Ukraine; The Cost of Weak Institutions

Tiffin, Andrew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

these advantages, however, Ukraine's per capita income remains low. Using a cross-country stochastic-frontier framework …

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Intensity of technology use and per capita real GDP across some African countries

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

African countries may have fared poorly compared to some countries in other regions, but relative to their own performance history some African countries have done quite well over the past eight years. In particular 2004 and 2005 were especially good years. How can such performance be made to...

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Trinidad and Tobago; 2005 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Trinidad and Tobago

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that the macroeconomic performance and financial developments in Trinidad and Tobago are currently being driven by a highly favorable external environment. Surging oil prices have strengthened the external current account balance, financed an...

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To Smooth or Not to Smooth; The Impact of Grants and Remittanceson the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Jordan

Petri, Martin; Saadi-Sedik, Tahsin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper estimates the effect of grants and workers' remittances on Jordan's long-term equilibrium real exchange rate. We estimate an equilibrium path for the Jordanian real exchange rate using the Johansen cointegration methodology over the period 1964 to 2005. Controlling for other...

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Global Disparities Since 1800:Trends and Regional Patterns

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Western Europe’s early economic lead. The Eurocentric claims are based primarily on estimates of a per capita income, which … questionable assumptions to reconstruct early per capita income. A careful examination of these conjectural estimates of per capita … of regional patterns – using estimates of per capita income. …

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Greece; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the growth prospects of the Greek economy. It is estimated that exceptional factors boosted growth by 1 percentage point per year in recent years and, under current trends and policies, growth is likely to drop to about 3 percent by the end of the decade. The...

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