This volume, edited by Said El-Naggar, is the fifth in a series of seminars dealing with economic issues of particular importance to the Arab countries. Held......
This paper examines the determinants of net interest margins in four regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and one comparator block in the Eastern Caribbean.......
Abstract: Both global and regional economic linkages have strengthened substantially over the past quarter century. We employ a dynamic factor model to analy......
This book, by A. Premchand, a former Assistant Director of IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, provides a comprehensive discussion of the expenditure process in......
The Background Papers gathers together a number of studies that were prepared as research to the final report. Although not a part of the report itself, the......
Taxation, like politics, is the art of the possible--yet most public finance texts ignore the critical role played by tax administration in restoring macroec......
The Report evaluates statistical practices relating to the measurement of international capital flows. In particular, the principal sources of statistical d......
Volume II, edited by Robert C. Effros, contains the collected views of banking and legal expers, gathered at the second IMF-sponsored seminar of central bank......
The challenge facing the Arab countries to maintain economic growth in the face of the deteriorating terms of trade affecting all developing countries was ad......
The case study of Hungary clarifies the specific macroeconomic policy requirements of countries in transition from centrally planned to market economies. Th......
IMF-supported adjustment programs aim to restore economic growth, while bringing about a sustainable balance of payments position. Achievement of these goals......
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference, moderated by V.A. Jafarey, held in Lahore, Pakistan. papers given at the seminar addressed fiscal refo......
This volume brings together several of the most important research papers on the monetary approach to the balance of payments prepared by IMF staff members. ......
The IMF has been a major participant in the challenge of transforming many African, Asian, and European countries from centrally planned to market economies.......
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member count......
Despite economic hardships during the past 20 years, Africa has recently enjoyed positive real economic growth, transformed its economic structures and syste......
This book, by a staff team headed by Yusuke Horiguchi, examines U.S. economic policy and performance in the 1980s, during which the United States enjoyed its......
This handbook, edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming, offers guidance to officials formulating public policy recommendations, so that the aggregate leve......
This volume, edited by Mohsin S. Khan, Peter J. Montiel, and Nadeem U. Haque, examines recent IMF-developed empirical macroeconomic models dealing with adjus......
This book presents the proceedings of a conference held in Beijing, China, on the role of central banks. Among the speakers were Paul A. Volcker, Miguel Man......