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Global Monitoring Report 2007 : Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States

2007

, emerging priorities, and provides a detailed region-by-region picture of performance in the developing regions of the world … empowerment of women (the third MDG) and the special problems of fragile states, where extreme poverty is increasingly … concentrated. The report, which is jointly issued by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, argues that gender …

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Global Monitoring Report, 2007 : Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States

International Monetary Fund - 2007

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Institutional Development : Skill Transference Through a Reversal of ""Human Capital Flight"" or Technical Assistance

International Monetary Fund - 1997

We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Once Again, is Openness Good for Growth?

International Monetary Fund - 2004

Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000) argue that the relation between openness and growth is still an open question. One of the main problems in the assessment of the effect is the endogeneity of the relation. In order to address this issue, this paper applies the identification through heteroskedasticity...

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Do IMF-Supported Programs Work? : A Survey of the Cross-Country Empirical Evidence

International Monetary Fund - 1998

Over the last two decades a number of cross-country empirical studies have been undertaken to assess whether IMF-supported adjustment programs have led to an improved balance of payments and current account balance, lower inflation, and higher growth. These studies use a variety of methodologies...

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Deconstructing the International Business Cycle : Why Does a U.S. Sneeze Give the Rest of the World a Cold?

International Monetary Fund - 2010

The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...

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Nigeria; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Nigeria highlights the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). NEEDS gives special support to agriculture, industry, small and medium-scale enterprises, and oil and gas. Under the plan, the government will seek long-term capital...

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Determinants of Emigrant Deposits in Cape Verde

International Monetary Fund - 2006

In the last decade Cape Verde has experienced a strong accumulation of emigrant deposits. These deposits have provided much needed foreign exchange to the country, adding support to the exchange rate peg. This paper studies the long-run determinants of emigrant deposits with respect to risk,...

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Daring the Difference : The Three L's of Women's Empowerment

International Monetary Fund - 2014

Daring the Difference: The Three L's of Women's Empowerment. Speech delivered by IMF Managing Director Christine …

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