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Fiscal Crises: The Role of the Public Debt Investor Base and Domestic Financial Markets as Aggravating and Mitigating Factors

Author/Editor: Rina Bhattacharya, Kubi Johnson, Mwanza Nkusu, Mengxue Wang.

Release Date:December, 2022

The paper evaluates the key drivers of fiscal crises in a sample of countries from all three income groups—advanced, emerging, and low-income countries, using fiscal crisis data recently developed by more...



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Repeated Use of IMF-Supported Programs: Determinants and Forecasting

Author/Editor: Martin Iseringhausen, Mwanza Nkusu, Wellian Wiranto.

Release Date:November, 2019

This paper studies the determinants of repeated use of Fund-supported programs in a large sample covering virtually all General Resources Account (GRA) arrangements that were approved between 1952 more...



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Estimating the Demand for Reserve Assets Across Diverse Groups

Author/Editor: Rina Bhattacharya, Katja Mann, Mwanza Nkusu.

Release Date:March, 2018

This paper takes a fresh look at the determinants of reserves holding with the aim of highlighting similarities and differences in the motives for holding reserves among emerging markets more...



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Changing Times for Frontier Markets : A Perspective from Portfolio Investment Flows and Financial Integration

Author/Editor: Nordine Abidi, Burcu Hacibedel, Mwanza Nkusu.

Release Date:August, 2016

This paper investigates to what extent low-income developing countries (LIDCs) characterized as frontier markets (FMs) have begun to be subject to capital flows dynamics typically associated with more...



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External Assessments in Special Cases

Author/Editor: Anna Ter-Martirosyan, Sally Chen, Lawrence Dwight, Mwanza Nkusu, Mehdi Raissi, Ashleigh Watson.

Release Date:January, 2014

External Assessments in Special Cases presents the pilot External Balances Assessment methodology developed by IMF staff for estimating current account and exchange rate gaps for a group of advanced more...



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Boosting Competitiveness to Grow Out of Debt—Can Ireland Find a Way Back to Its Future?

Author/Editor: Mwanza Nkusu.

Release Date:February, 2013

This paper investigates the prospects for Ireland to grow its economy against the backdrop of high indebtedness. The paper uses vector autoregressive analysis to explore the interlinkages among more...



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Nonperforming Loans and Macrofinancial Vulnerabilities in Advanced Economies

Author/Editor: Mwanza Nkusu.

Release Date:July, 2011

We analyze the link between nonperforming loans (NPL) and macroeconomic performance using two complementary approaches. First, we investigate the macroeconomic determinants of NPL in panel more...



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Cross-Cutting Themes in Employment Experiences during the Crisis

Author/Editor: Athanasios Vamvakidis, Francis Vitek, Mwanza Nkusu, Reginald Darius, Alun H Thomas, Edouard Vidon.

Release Date:November, 2010

The human cost of the recent global crisis is reflected in its impact on the labor market. Explaining why economies with similar downturns had very different employment trends can help design more...



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Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship

Author/Editor: Mwanza Nkusu, Selin Sayek.

Release Date:December, 2004

With official development assistance (ODA) set to rise as countries strive to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aid effectiveness remains an important area of development policy. An more...



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Are there Negative Returns to Aid? a Comment

Author/Editor: Mwanza Nkusu.

Release Date:November, 2004

Amid controversies surrounding aid effectiveness, an increasing number of empirical studies find support for the idea that aid can spur growth and that the aid-growth relationship is nonlinear. more...



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