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Fiscal Policy and Employment in Advanced and Emerging Economies

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper discusses tax and expenditure policy reforms to raise employment. Using data for 58 advanced and emerging economies, the paper provides a unified assessment of tax and expenditure measures that have usually been addressed separately. The focus is on incentives to increase labor demand...

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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?

International Monetary Fund - 1997

Increased globalization - the international integration of markets forgoods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with moreskills. Have imports from developing countries been responsible for thelowered wages...

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Employment Effects of Growth Rebalancing in China

International Monetary Fund - 2009

This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China''s exportoriented growth model toward domestic demand, particularly private consumption. Shifting to a private consumption-led growth likely means more demand for existing and new services as well as reorienting the...

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Job Creation : Why Some Countries Do Better

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Over the past decade, the United States has been very successful atcreating jobs. Some other industrial countries have clearly lagged behind. But what is the reason why some countries are more successful than others at creating employment? Are there common factors that explainjob creation? This...

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Sweden : 2004 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sweden

International Monetary Fund - 2004

This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that the downturn experienced by the Swedish economy in 2002–03 was relatively mild, with growth remaining well above the European Union average. Expansionary fiscal policy in 2002 underpinned private consumption. Private investment, however,...

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Sweden : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This Selected Issues paper for Sweden reports that the gradual introduction of a detailed fiscal framework accompanied … the successful consolidation effort over the last decade in Sweden. The framework includes a surplus target of 2 percent …

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Sweden : 2005 Article IV Consultation — Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Swed...

International Monetary Fund - 2005

Sweden’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that strong productivity gains, wage moderation, and falling nonenergy …

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Sweden : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 2004

The Selected Issues paper analyzes tax policy trends at the local level in Sweden and assesses the effectiveness of the … vertical fiscal policy coordination system. The study reviews Sweden’s local public finances from an international perspective …

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Sweden : 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sweden

International Monetary Fund - 2007

This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that a broad-based economic upturn is under way in Sweden, spurred by …

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Sweden : Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Monetary and Financial Policy Transparency, Bank...

International Monetary Fund - 2002

This paper presents key findings of Sweden’s Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance …, Insurance Regulation, and Payment Systems. The assessment reveals that Sweden has an advanced and overall sound financial system … that complies well with international standards and codes. Sweden confronts an environment that is less benign than in …

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