This paper updates economic size rankings and quota formulas derived from the principal components approach to quota formulation at the IMF developed by Nguéma-Affane (2008). Using available annual sets of quota data up to 2011, the paper shows that the top 10 countries remained broadly stable...

Why did some countries in the Euro Zone between 2010 and 2012 - until the European Central Bank stepped in - experience a dramatic vicious circle between hard austerity plans and rising default risk premia? Were such plans too small, and hence non credible, or too large, and hence non...

The sustainable regional development is a crucial topic at the level of the EU nowadays. Therefore, the regional policies of the member states should be constructed in such a fashion, that they comply with the general European framework and maximize the potential of reaching the European goals....

This paper presents some of the utilities of using SAS code for analyze and forecast, in a pharmaceutical company. First, data must be cleaned, in order to obtain representative results. Once this stage done, the input can be evaluated and models can be created in SAS, to extract the most...

Achieving structural transformation is believed to be a priority agenda in development policy of developing countries. However, the discussion of structural transformation has been bound to an analysis of labor shifts and productivity convergence between economic sectors. This narrow definition...