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Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances

Fullenkamp, Connel; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...

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Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth

Ostry, Jonathan David; Berg, Andrew; Tsangarides, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

the previous SDN on inequality and growth by focusing on the role of redistribution. It finds that, from the perspective … of the best available macroeconomic data, there is not a lot of evidence that redistribution has in fact undercut … is a big tradeoff between redistribution and growth. The best available macroeconomic data do not support such a …

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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature

Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that …

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

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

The three-point VAT increase is part of a package in which unemployment payroll taxes will be reduced. Risks to the recovery are balanced but the range of forecasts for 2007 is unusually wide. The priority for Germany is to transmit its external strength to the domestic economy, thus further...

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Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility; A Political Economy Perspective

Tosun, Mehmet S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...

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Macroeconomics of Migration in New Member States

Bems, Rudolfs; Schellekens, Philip - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS …

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Impact of Remittanceson Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

out-migration in SSA. …

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Toward A Sustainable and Inclusive Consolidation in Lithuania; Past Experience and What is Needed Going Forward

Geng, Nan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

income redistribution, especially in the upper income brackets. The paper argues therefore that there is ample scope to …

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The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation

Ball, Laurence M.; Furceri, Davide; Leigh, Daniel; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal consolidation. Using episodes of fiscal consolidation for a sample of 17 OECD countries over the period 1978–2009, we find that fiscal consolidation has typically had significant distributional effects by raising inequality, decreasing...

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Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy

Coady, David; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...

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