Search Results - subject:"External Openness"

Small and medium-sized enterprises response to Covid-19 : the effect of external openness and procedural management

Fasth, Jonas; Åkerman, Niklas; Elliot, Viktor; … - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 41 (2023) 5, pp. 465-487

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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

Kriljenko, Jorge Iván Canales; Gwenhamo, Farayi; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...

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Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic; Trade Integration and Economic Performance

Cas, Stephanie Medina; Swiston, Andrew; Barrot, Luis-Diego - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other...

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What is Really Good for Long-Term Growth? Lessons from a Binary ClassificationTree (BCT) Approach

Duttagupta, Rupa; Mlachila, Montfort - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Although the economic growth literature has come a long way since the Solow-Swan model of the fifties, there is still considerable debate on the "real' or "deep" determinants of growth. This paper revisits the question of what is really important for strong long-term growth by using a Binary...

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What drives innovative output in emerging clusters? Evidence from the wine industry

Giuliani, Elisa - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2008

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Cape Verde; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This Selected Issues paper examines macroeconomic challenges for a highly tourism-based economy such as Cape Verde. The changing structure of Cape Verdeâ€™s balance-of-payments financing calls for a closer look at the volatility of remittances and their role as an absorber of economic...

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Economic Growth and Integration in Central America

Schipke, Alfred; Desruelle, Dominique - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

How to entrench hard-won gains, increase resilience to shocks, and improve growth performance to reduce poverty? As Central America moves forward in regaining macroeconomic stability, these are the challenges. This study analyzes Central Americaâ€™s real, fiscal, monetary, and financial...

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Singapore; 2003 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

The economic downturns and an ongoing industrial restructuring toward capital-intensive sectors, such as chemical and pharmaceuticals, have contributed to rising unemployment. With the economic recovery continuing to gain momentum, the near-term outlook has improved. With broad agreement on the...

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Does external openness influence the infant mortality rates? An econometric investigation for the Chinese provinces.

AUDIBERT, Martine; MATHONNAT, Jacky; CHEN, Yu - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 1998

section 4. They show that external openness had indirect effects on IMR in a way, which confirms the necessity to rebuild and … openness in policy has already paid important dividends in growth. The purpose of this study is to investigate if external … openness had any influence on the evolution of infant mortality rates (IMR) in Chinese provinces since the beginning of the …

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