Author/Editor: Dyna Heng, Anna Ivanova, Rodrigo Mariscal, Uma Ramakrishnan, Joyce Wong.

Release Date:April, 2016

This paper examines the state of financial development in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region as well as potential growth and stability implications from further development. The more...

Author/Editor: Bikas Joshi, Manuela Goretti, Uma Ramakrishnan, Alun H Thomas, Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:June, 2008

Although capital inflows are generally beneficial to recipient countries, they also pose a challenge for the conduct of economic policy. This paper proposes a conceptual taxonomy to guide the design more...

Author/Editor: Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo, Alun H Thomas, Jun Il Kim, Uma Ramakrishnan, Bikas Joshi.

Release Date:May, 2008

This paper examines the various roles of IMF financing in crisis prevention. Emerging market economies that experienced financial crises in the past have been subject to enormous economic and social more...

Author/Editor: Uma Ramakrishnan, Alun H Thomas.

Release Date:September, 2006

Prior actions are measures that need to be implemented prior to Board approval of an IMFsupported program. This paper examines whether such prior actions can signal a willingness to implement more...

Author/Editor: Uma Ramakrishnan, Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:March, 2006

This paper examines the role of IMF-supported programs in crisis prevention; specifically, whether, conditional on an episode of intense market pressures, IMF financial support helps prevent a more...

Author/Editor: Charalambos Christofides, Atish R Ghosh, Uma Ramakrishnan, Alun H Thomas, Laura Papi, Juan Zalduendo, Jun Il Kim.

Release Date:September, 2005

This collection of papers examines IMF-supported programs over the period 1995-2000 in both middle-income and low-income countries. In order to seek insights from a comparison across different types more...

Author/Editor: Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan, Alun H Thomas, Tessa Van der Willigen, Uma Ramakrishnan, S Reichold, Juan Zalduendo, James P Walsh.

Release Date:September, 2005

This paper focuses on the fact that the 2004–2005 conditionality review expands to include a review of the application of the new Guidelines on Conditionality, adopted in 2002. These guidelines more...

Author/Editor: Uma Ramakrishnan, Martin D Cerisola.

Release Date:August, 2004

Australia's remarkable economic performance during the 1990s has not resulted in a significant convergence of real per capita income, output, and employment levels across the country's states and more...

Author/Editor: Uma Ramakrishnan, Athanasios Vamvakidis.

Release Date:June, 2002

A reliable inflation-forecasting model is central for a sound monetary policy framework. In this paper, we study the domestic and international transmission effects on inflation in Indonesia and more...