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Denmark : Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Competition in the Banking Sector
Release Date: March, 2007 Price: $18.00This technical note analyzes the competition in the banking sector in Denmark. It reveals that Denmark has a fairly competitive and efficient banking sector. Measured by various indicators, more... |
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Cyprus : Staff Report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: February, 2007 Price: $18.00This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in Cyprus has recovered from a relatively weak performance in 2002–03. Declines in interest rates and strong capital inflows more... |
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Italy : Selected Issues
Release Date: February, 2007 Price: $18.00This Selected Issues paper applies a range of methods to assess Italy’s competitiveness gap versus other euro area members. All indicators point to a clear erosion of competitiveness in recent more... |
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Chad: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Release Date: January, 2007 Price: $20.00This Selected Issues paper aims at discussing the impact of the oil windfall on Chad, with a focus on growth, poverty, competitiveness, and fiscal policy challenges posed by the oil revenue outlook. more... |
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Uruguay : Selected Issues
Release Date: December, 2006 Price: $18.00This report includes five background studies with emphasis on vulnerabilities and growth, the focus of the 2006 Article IV Consultation with Uruguay. Stocks of key financial balance sheet more... |
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Costa Rica : Staff Report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: November, 2006 Price: $18.00Despite the oil price shock, growth has been high. Discussions focused on the policies needed to reduce Costa Rica’s vulnerabilities, enhance growth, and reduce poverty in a lasting way. more... |
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Republic of Estonia : Selected Issues
Release Date: November, 2006 Price: $18.00This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle more... |
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Portugal : Selected Issues
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00A range of indicators point to a competitiveness gap of 10–20 percent with respect to euro area competitors. Closing the competitiveness gap will require an extended adjustment period, even more... |
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Union of the Comoros : 2006 Article IV Consultation and Fourth Staff Review and Extension of the Staff-Monitored Program: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Union of the Comoros
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00Comoros faces significant economic and political challenges. The fiscal priorities are to restore revenues and curtail spending so that domestic arrears can be reduced and the program brought back on more... |
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Hungary : Staff Report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00The principal policy task in Hungary is to place public finances on a sound footing. For monetary policy, the challenge is to identify one-off inflationary influences, communicate these to the public more... |
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Portugal : 2006 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Portugal
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00Important progress can be seen in the economic and policy environment in Portugal, but challenges remain. Firm implementation of strategy is essential to meet these challenges. It will be essential more... |
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Mexico : 2006 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00Mexico’s two main economic policy challenges are to fully entrench stability and to remove remaining obstacles to economic growth, necessary to end poverty. The floating exchange rate policy more... |
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Republic of Croatia : Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement
Release Date: October, 2006 Price: $18.00The report provides the third Review of the Republic of Croatia Under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). Policies under the SBA have sought to reduce Croatia’s savings-investment imbalance and more... |
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan:Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Release Date: March, 2006 Price: $20.00This Selected Issues paper provides a preliminary view on Afghanistan's external competitiveness through a review of some macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional indicators. It discusses the more... |
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Belgium:2005 Article IV Consultation Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
Release Date: March, 2006 Price: $20.00This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Belgium's growth has picked up following weakness in early 2005, mainly reflecting a negative contribution from the external sector and weak more... |
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Competitiveness in the Baltics in the Run-Up to EU Accession
Release Date: April, 2003 Price: $15.00This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since more... |
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Consolidation and Market Structure in Emerging Market Banking Systems
Author/Editor: R G Gelos, Jorge Roldos. Release Date: November, 2002 Price: $15.00This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in more... |
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