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Inflation and Income Inequality: Is Food Inflation Different?

Author/Editor: James P Walsh, Jiangyan Yu.

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to more...



What’s in It for Me? A Primer on Differences between Islamic and Conventional Finance in Malaysia

Author/Editor: Olga Krasicka, Sylwia Nowak.

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

What attracts conventional investors to Islamic financial instruments? We answer this question by comparing Malaysian Islamic and conventional security prices and their response to macrofinancial more...



Global and Regional Spillovers to Pacific Island Countries

Author/Editor: Niamh Sheridan, Patrizia Tumbarello, Yiqun Wu.

Release Date: June, 2012

Price: $18.00

Regional integration of Pacific Island countries (PICs) with Australia, New Zealand, and emerging Asia has increased over the last two decades. PICs have become more exposed to the region’s more...



Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India

Author/Editor: Michael Debabrata Patra, Muneesh Kapur.

Release Date: May, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996-2011 using quarterly data, with a view to more...



Determinants of Credit Growth and Interest Margins in the Philippines and Asia

Author/Editor: Tatum Blaise Pua Tan.

Release Date: May, 2012

Price: $18.00

Despite robust deposit growth, credit growth has been sluggish in the Philippines. We attribute this to legacy weaknesses in bank balance sheets, consumption-led economic growth, and relatively high more...



Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Asia and Pacific : Managing Spillovers and Advancing Economic Rebalancing

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $35.00

Barring the realization of downside risks to the global economy, growth in the Asia and the Pacific region is expected to gain momentum over the course of 2012, according to this report, and now more...



Sri Lanka: Seventh Review under the Stand-By Arrangement and Requests for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, Extension of the Arrangement Period, Rephasing of Purchases, and Establishment of Performance Criteria—Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sri Lanka.

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

India: 2012 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement and Supplements; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for India

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

Modeling with Limited Data: Estimating Potential Growth in Cambodia

Author/Editor: Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul.

Release Date: April, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper proposes a framework to analyze long-term potential growth that combines a simple quantitative model with an investigative approach of ‘growth diagnostics’. The framework is more...



Philippines: Technical Assistance Report on Road Map for a Pro-Growth and Equitable Tax System

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Republic of Palau: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Mongolia: Second Post-Program Monitoring Discussions

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Philippines: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Philippines: Selected Issues

Release Date: March, 2012

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Does the Business Environment Affect Corporate Investment in India?

Author/Editor: Kiichi Tokuoka.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not only moderate growth from the demand side but also constrain growth from the more...



BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and Their Implications for LICs

Author/Editor: Nkunde Mwase, Yongzheng Yang.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding more...



Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia

Author/Editor: A. J. Al-Eyd, David Amaglobeli, Bahrom Shukurov, Mariusz A. Sumlinski.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest more...



Revisiting Risk-Weighted Assets

Author/Editor: Vanessa Le Leslé, Sofiya Avramova.

Release Date: March, 2012

Price: $18.00

In this paper, we provide an overview of the concerns surrounding the variations in the calculation of risk-weighted assets (RWAs) across banks and jurisdictions and how this might undermine the more...



Republic of Fiji: 2011 Article IV Consultation

Release Date: February, 2012

Price: $18.00

Malaysia: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation

Release Date: February, 2012

Price: $18.00

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