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Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability; Evidence From Panel Data Regressions

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation of a new measure of oil rents for a panel of 31 oil-exporting countries during the period 1992 to 2005. We find that an increase in oil rents significantly increases...

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Australia; Mutual Evaluation Report: FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

The evaluation of the anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime of Australia was based on the Forty Recommendations 2003 and the Eight Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing 2001 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and was prepared using the...

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Brazil: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

implementation of the infrastructure investment program, higher domestic saving, and structural reforms. …

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United Kingdom: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

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Indonesia; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This selected issues paper on Indonesia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on August 21, 2012. The views expressed...

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Kingdom of Lesotho : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund - 2008

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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Kingdom of Lesotho : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund - 2005

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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Investment and Growth in the Arab World : A Scoping Note

International Monetary Fund - 2016

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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Adjustment Uncertainty, Confidence, and Growth : Latin America After the Debt Crisis

International Monetary Fund - 1989

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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Private Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund - 1989

Despite the growing support for market-oriented strategies, and for a greater role of private investment, empirical … growth models for developing countries typically make no distinction between the private and public components of investment … public sector and private sector investment. This model is estimated for a cross - section sample of 24 developing countries …

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