 | The Political Costs of Reforms : Fear or Reality? Author/Editor: Davide Furceri, Jun Ge, Jonathan David Ostry, Chris Papageorgiou, Gabriele Ciminelli. Release Date:October, 2019 Many countries are experiencing persistent, weak medium-term growth and limited fiscal space. Against this background, economic policy agendas—in both advanced and developing economies—are more...
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 | Macroeconomic Outcomes in Disaster-Prone Countries Author/Editor: Alessandro Cantelmo, Giovanni Melina, Chris Papageorgiou. Release Date:October, 2019 Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we study the channels through which natural disaster shocks affect macroeconomic outcomes and welfare in disaster-prone countries. We solve the more...
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| Populism and Civil Society Author/Editor: Tito Boeri, Prachi Mishra, Chris Papageorgiou, Antonio Spilimbergo. Release Date:November, 2018 Populists claim to be the only legitimate representative of the people. Does it mean that there is no space for civil society? The issue is important because since Tocqueville (1835), associations more...
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| Economic Gains From Gender Inclusion:New Mechanisms, New Evidence Author/Editor: Jonathan David Ostry, Jorge A Alvarez, Raphael A Espinoza, Chris Papageorgiou. Release Date:October, 2018 While progress has been made in increasing female labor force participation (FLFP) in the last 20 years, large gaps remain. The latest Fund research shows that improving gender diversity can result more...
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| Rethinking Development Policy: Deindustrialization, Servicification and Structural Transformation Author/Editor: Manoj Atolia, Prakash Loungani, Milton Marquis, Chris Papageorgiou. Release Date:September, 2018 This paper takes a fresh look at the current theories of structural transformation and the role of private and public fundamentals in the process. It summarizes some representative past and current more...
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| Forecasts in Times of Crises Author/Editor: Theo S Eicher, David J Kuenzel, Chris Papageorgiou, Charis Christofides. Release Date:March, 2018 Financial crises pose unique challenges for forecast accuracy. Using the IMF’s Monitoring of Fund Arrangement (MONA) database, we conduct the most comprehensive evaluation of IMF forecasts to date more...
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| Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States Author/Editor: Ricardo Marto, Chris Papageorgiou, Vladimir Klyuev. Release Date:October, 2017 We present a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of
natural disasters. In addition to permanent damages to public and private capital, the disaster
causes more...
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| World Trade in Services : Evidence from A New Dataset Author/Editor: Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra, Chris Papageorgiou, Ke Wang. Release Date:March, 2017 Using a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014,
this paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade and an
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| The U.S. Manufacturing Recovery: Uptick or Renaissance? Author/Editor: Oya Celasun, Gabriel Di Bella, Tim Mahedy, Chris Papageorgiou. Release Date:February, 2014 The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the sector might be experiencing a renaissance. Using panel regressions, we find more...
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| Export Quality in Developing Countries Author/Editor: Christian Henn, Chris Papageorgiou, Nicola Spatafora. Release Date:May, 2013 This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early more...
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