Author/Editor: Marialuz Moreno Badia, Paulo Medas, Pranav Gupta, Yuan Xiang.

Release Date:January, 2020

With public debt soaring across the world, a growing concern is whether current debt levels are a harbinger of fiscal crises, thereby restricting the policy space in a downturn. The empirical more...

Author/Editor: Jaromir Benes, Kevin Clinton, Asish George, Pranav Gupta, Joice John, Ondra Kamenik, Douglas Laxton, Pratik Mitra, G V Nadhanael, Rafael Portillo, Hou Wang, Fan Zhang.

Release Date:February, 2017

This paper outlines the key features of the production version of the quarterly projection model (QPM), which is a forward-looking open-economy gap model, calibrated to represent the Indian case, for more...

Author/Editor: Pranav Gupta, Bin Li, Jiangyan Yu.

Release Date:April, 2015

Some resource-rich developing countries are in the process of harnessing immense mining resources towards inclusive growth and prosperity. Nevertheless, tapping into natural resources could be more...

Author/Editor: Corinne Delechat, John Clark JR, Pranav Gupta, Malangu Kabedi-Mbuyi, Mesmin Koulet-Vickot, Carla Macario, Toomas Orav, Manuel Rosales, Rene Tapsoba, Dmitry Zhdankin, Susan Yang.

Release Date:February, 2015

Like other fragile sub-Saharan African countries, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are seeking to harness their natural resource potential in the context of ambitious development more...

Author/Editor: Luisa Charry, Pranav Gupta, Vimal Thakoor.

Release Date:August, 2014

We develop a simple semistructural model for the Rwandan economy to better understand the monetary policy transmission mechanism. A key feature of the model is the introduction of a modified more...