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Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …
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This paper develops a model of an open economy which employs distortionary taxes to finance public consumption, and with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports and the accompanying set of taxes. A distinction is made...
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …
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In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
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The paper considers gains from international economic policy coordination when there is uncertainty concerning the functioning of the world economy, but also learning about the “true” model on the part of policymakers. The paper reports estimates of plausible alternative versions of a...
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time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with the insights needed to produce such formulas. This paper gives a …
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growth-accounting framework are outlined. The main constraints to growth and private investment and current policy initiative … to promote broad-based growth and private investment are analyzed. The various methods employed suggest that there is …
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This Selected Issues paper on the Kingdom of Lesotho reviews the broad objectives and key institutional features of the Common Monetary Area (CMA) relating to currency arrangements. The CMA Agreement provides for the three small member countries to have access to South African capital and money...
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'Guidelines') to establish the investment objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of the PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR … Trusts (the'Trusts') which are available for investment under the Trusts' instruments. These Guidelines are included in this …
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