Search Results - subject:"FOREIGN CAPITAL"

Post-Crisis Recovery; When Does Increased Fiscal Discipline Work?

Mitra, Pritha - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Emerging market financial crises during the late 1990s were marked by sudden withdrawals of funds by foreign creditors, resulting in production declines. The IMF favored positive signals to potential foreign creditors and initially recommended disciplined fiscal policy during the height of...

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Sustaining Latin America's Resurgence; Some Historical Perspectives

Singh, Anoop; Cerisola, Martin D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper looks at the historical lessons that might serve to entrech Latin America's newly resurgent growth phase. It briefly reviews the post-World War II experiences in Latin America and Asia, focusing on the conditions that favored capital accumulation and productivity growth in the faster...

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Analyzing Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities in a Dollarized Economy; The Case of Georgia

Billmeier, Andreas; Mathisen, Johan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Balance-sheet analysis (BSA) complements traditional flow-oriented macroeconomic analysis by gauging mismatches in aggregate and sectoral balance sheets of an economy. Enabled by recent progress in data availability, this paper applies BSA to Georgia, focusing on currency mismatches. In...

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Sudden Stops and IMF-Supported Programs

Eichengreen, Barry J.; Gupta, Poonam; Mody, Ashoka - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Could a high-access, quick-disbursing "insurance facility" in the IMF help to reduce the incidence of sharp interruptions in capital flows ("sudden stops")? We contribute to the debate around this question by analyzing the impact of conventional IMF-supported programs on the incidence of sudden...

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Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on Economic Growth in Pakistan [1975-2004]

Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two … Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the Savings-Investment Gap. There are many forms of the foreign capital inflows like FDI …) always remains questionable. This paper analyzes the impact of the foreign capital inflow on GDP Growth in Pakistan during …

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Wage Inequality in a Dual Economy and International Mobility of Factors: DO Factor Intensities always matter?

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

emigration of skilled labour or an inflow of foreign capital may move the wages in favour of the unskilled labour and lower the … supplementary measures to curb trade union power and prevent illegal immigration of unskilled labour, abundant inflows of foreign … capital might be a solution to both deteriorating wage inequality and increasing unemployment of unskilled labour in the …

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THE ROLE OF THE FOREIGN CAPITAL IN THE INTEGRATION PROCESS OF REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Boskovska, M. Sc. Diana - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 8 (2006) 19, pp. 114-121

Foreign capital has significant role for every national economy, regardless of its level of development. For the … and rate of development, Macedonia as a transition country has a very big need for foreign capital. When we talk about the … foreign capital and its need and significance for the Macedonian economy, on the first place we have in mind the foreign …

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FOREIGN CAPITAL IN ROMANIA IN RETROSPET BACK TO 1954

AXENCIUC, Victor - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 23 (2006) 2(32), pp. 78-85

In 1914 external capital funds represented 153% and under 45% in 1938 from national income. The foreign capital …

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Malaysian Capital Controls; Macroeconomics and Institutions

Tamirisa, Natalia T.; Johnson, Simon; Kochhar, Kalpana; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

We analyze the capital controls imposed in Malaysia in September 1998. In macroeconomic terms, these controls neither yielded major benefits nor were costly. At the same time, the stock market interpreted the capital controls (and associated events) as favoring firms with stronger political...

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Domestic Investment and the Cost of Capital in the Caribbean

Roache, Shaun K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Investment-to-GDP ratios across the Caribbean tend to be relatively high. In many countries, these ratios have been trending higher since the mid-1990s, largely reflecting public investment and foreign direct investment. Private domestic investors have been less prominent. This may be one reason...

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