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Social Spending for Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and Central Asia

Author/Editor: Koshy Mathai, Christoph Duenwald, Anastasia Guscina, Rayah Al-Farah, Hatim Bukhari, Atif Chaudry, Moataz El-Said, Fozan Fareed, Kerstin Gerling, Nghia-Piotr Le, Franto Ricka, Cesar Serra, Tetyana Sydorenko, Sébastien Walker, Mohammed Zaher.

Release Date:September, 2020

This paper examines the role of social spending in improving socioeconomic outcomes in the Middle East and Central Asia. In particular, it addresses the following questions: (1) how large is social more...



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Assessing Loss of Market Access: Conceptual and Operational Issues

Author/Editor: Anastasia Guscina, Sheheryar Malik, Michael G Papaioannou.

Release Date:November, 2017

Loss of market access (LMA) is a central element and an exacerbator of balance of payments and fiscal crises. This paper provides an operational definition of LMA, examines the predictive power of more...



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First-Time International Bond Issuance—New Opportunities and Emerging Risks

Author/Editor: Anastasia Guscina, Guilherme Pedras, Gabriel Presciuttini.

Release Date:July, 2014

International bond issuance by debut issuers has risen in recent years. The uptick was a result of both demand and supply factors. The search for yield and demand for portfolio diversification have more...



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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs: an Application to Slovakia

Author/Editor: Mark de Broeck, Anastasia Guscina, Gil Mehrez.

Release Date:April, 2012

Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can more...



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Does Procyclical Fiscal Policy Reinforce Incentives to Dollarize Sovereign Debt?

Author/Editor: Anna Ilyina, Anastasia Guscina, Herman Kamil.

Release Date:July, 2010

This paper explores the link between the cyclical patterns of macroeconomic and policy variables and the currency composition of domestic sovereign debt in emerging market countries. The empirical more...



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Impact of Macroeconomic, Political, and Institutional Factors on the Structure of Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries

Author/Editor: Anastasia Guscina.

Release Date:August, 2008

Debt crises that have shaken Latin America, Asia, and Russia have brought an increasing attention to the structure of debt in emerging market countries. Using the newly released Jeanne-Guscina EM more...



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Effects of Globalization on Labor's Share in National Income

Author/Editor: Anastasia Guscina.

Release Date:December, 2006

The past two decades have seen a decline in labor's share of national income in several industrial countries. This paper analyzes the role of three factors in explaining movements in labor's more...



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Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries : A New Data Set

Author/Editor: Anastasia Guscina, Olivier Jeanne.

Release Date:April, 2006

This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, more...



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