Author/Editor: Marco Arena, Rudolfs Bems, Nadeem Ilahi, Jaewoo Lee, William Lindquist, Tonny Lybek.

Release Date:September, 2021

Several emerging market central banks in Europe deployed asset purchase programs (APPs) amid the 2020 pandemic. The common main goals were to address market dysfunction and impaired monetary more...

Author/Editor: Nadeem Ilahi, Armine Khachatryan, William Lindquist, Nhu Nguyen, Faezeh Raei, Jesmin Rahman.

Release Date:November, 2019

In the past 25 years, exports have contributed strongly to growth and economic convergence in many small open economies. However, the Western Balkan (WB) region, consisting of small emerging market more...

Author/Editor: Ruben V Atoyan, Lone Engbo Christiansen, Allan Dizioli, Christian H Ebeke, Nadeem Ilahi, Anna Ilyina, Gil Mehrez, Haonan Qu, Faezeh Raei, Alaina P Rhee, Daria V Zakharova.

Release Date:July, 2016

This paper analyses the impact of large and persistent emigration from Eastern European countries over the past 25 years on these countries’ growth and income convergence to advanced Europe. While more...

Author/Editor: Jaime Espinosa-Bowen, Nadeem Ilahi, Fahad Alturki.

Release Date:December, 2009

We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over more...

Author/Editor: Nadeem Ilahi, Riham Shendy.

Release Date:July, 2008

This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel more...

Author/Editor: Ghiath Shabsigh, Nadeem Ilahi.

Release Date:April, 2007

Oil funds have become increasingly popular in oil exporting countries during the recent surge in oil prices. However, the literature on the contribution is small, tends to focus narrowly on their more...