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Of the new members entering the European Union (EU) in May 2004, several had achieved a decade of impressive export growth, expanding significantly their shares of world markets. The empirical analysis shows that over the period 1994–2004, quality and technology upgrading associated with the...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Slovak Republic reviews efficiency and reform of the health sector. The immediate challenge for the health care system in the Slovak Republic is to improve health sector outcomes while containing public health spending. The Slovak health care system is...
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This report assesses the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency Module for the Slovak Republic. Fiscal management and transparency in the Slovak Republic have improved substantially over the last two years, and the country now meets the fiscal transparency code’s standards in...
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This report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC)—data module—provides an assessment of the Slovak Republic’s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality...
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This Selected Issues paper evaluates competitiveness in Slovakia and estimates the equilibrium real exchange rate path … for the koruna. It takes stock of Slovakia’s growth performance over the past decade and assesses its growth potential … over the medium term. It estimates the equilibrium real exchange rate appreciation in Slovakia using cross-section and time …
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The Slovak Republic’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that sound macroeconomic management and a wide range of fundamental structural reforms are supporting nominal convergence with European Union norms. Real GDP growth accelerated to 6 percent in 2005, driven by an improvement in the...
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This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that Slovakia’s economic performance has improved since the 2003 Article …
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This paper reviews economic developments in Slovakia during 1995–96. Slovakia registered an impressive macroeconomic …
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highlights that the predominant cause is that employment in Slovakia declined more sharply than in the Czech Republic …
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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines external competitiveness and the exchange rate for the Slovak Republic. The paper describes two simple types of competitiveness indicators: (i) real effective exchange rate measures, which examine underlying fundamentals thought to...
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