In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Armenia during 1995–96. Stabilization and economic growth continued in 1995 and 1996. Official estimates indicate that real GDP increased by 6.9 percent in 1995 and by 4.3 percent during the first six months of 1996 compared with...

This 2003 Article IV Consultation highlights that the economic expansion that began in Greece in the mid-1990s has continued unabated, with some employment gains in 2002 for the first time in four years. GDP increased by 4 percent in 2002, well above the European Union (EU) average, but external...

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper presents cross-country regression results that identify investment in physical capital and improvements in institutional quality as having the largest pay-off in terms of increased growth. The paper employs three approaches to forecast...

This paper examines Liberia’s 2001 Article IV Consultation and Overdue Financial Obligations to the IMF. Liberia’s policy performance, as well as its relations with donors and creditors, has deteriorated since the conclusion of the last Article IV Consultation and the last...

This paper discusses a Detailed Assessment of the Observance of Monte Titoli (MT) for Securities Settlement Systems for Italy. The paper discusses that the rules and regulations governing the operations and activities of MT are public and accessible to participants. The Italian laws and...

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix compares two alternative time series approaches to analyzing Switzerland’s recent business cycle experience: first, the traditional “smooth-trend-plus-cycle approach,†which envisages observed output growth as fluctuating...

This paper assesses Romania’s First and Second Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), Request for Waivers, and Modification of Performance Criterion. The authorities have so far achieved the main macroeconomic objectives of the program supported by the SBA; the results now need to be...

This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Uzbekistan during 1992–97. It compares growth in Uzbekistan with that of other transition economies and seeks to shed light on why Uzbekistan has suffered a smaller transformational recession than other transition economies. The...