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What Have We Learned About Productivity in the Last Two Decades?: A Review Article on New Developments in Productivity Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 53-63

of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …

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Changes in market functioning and central bank policy: an overview of the issues

Barth, Marvin J.; Wooldridge, Philip D.; Remolona, Eli M - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2002

In recent years, a number of structural developments have had a significant influence on the functioning of financial … markets. The most important of these developments are the introduction of the euro, the spread of electronic trading, shifts … some evidence that such developments have led to shifts in liquidity among different market segments and, moreover, that …

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Restructuring in the Canadian Economy: A Survey of Firms

Kwan, Carolyn C. - Bank of Canada - 2002

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Challenges in Expanding Development Assistance

Heller, Peter S.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper highlights the macro and microeconomic challenges associated with success of the effort to mobilize 0.7 percent of GNP for official development assistance (ODA). To promote achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, enhanced ODA must be as productive as possible. In weighing the...

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New technologies and productivity growth in the euro area

Albers, Ronald; Vijselaar, Focco - 2002

technologies (ICT) for developments in productivity growth in the euro area. On the basis of the available data, there is evidence …

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New technologies and productivity growth in the euro area

Albers, Ronald; Vijselaar, Focco - European Central Bank - 2002

technologies (ICT) for developments in productivity growth in the euro area. On the basis of the available data, there is evidence …

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Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Sector Stability

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002

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The Role of Affordable Mortgages in Improving Living Standards and Stimulating Growth; A Survey of Selected Mena Countries

Nothaft, Frank E.; Erbas, S. Nuri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper argues that making affordable home mortgage loans available to a large cross section of the population will serve both the redistributive and growth-enhancing objectives of poverty reduction policies. The current state of housing and mortgage markets in selected Middle East and North...

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Statistical Confidence Intervals for the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey

Munik, Daniel de - Bank of Canada - 2010

While a number of central banks publish their own business conditions indicators that rely on non-random sampling, knowledge about their statistical accuracy has been limited. Recently, de Munnik, Dupuis, and Illing (2009) made some progress in this area for the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook...

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Prospects for Global Current Account Rebalancing

Beaton, Kimberly; Resende, Carlos de; Lalonde, René; … - Bank of Canada - 2010

The authors use the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model, a multi-country, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking system (the BoC-GEM-FIN), to study the evolution of global current account balances following the recent global financial...

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