Release Date: March, 2006

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix describes Palau's financial sector, its recent performance, and developments in regulatory reform. The paper considers illustrative scenarios of more...

Release Date: March, 2006

This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Belgium's growth has picked up following weakness in early 2005, mainly reflecting a negative contribution from the external sector and weak more...

Release Date: August, 2005

This paper focuses on expectations for the American economy focused on the likelihood of secular stagnation, which continued to be debated throughout the post-war period. Concerns rose during the more...

Release Date: December, 2004

The IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly publication, selectively summarizes research and analytical work done by various departments at the IMF, and also provides a listing of research documents and more...

Release Date: August, 2004

This Selected Issues paper on Euro Area Policies underlies global rebalancing of accounts. From a growth-accounting perspective, slower growth in the capital-labor ratio seems to be the main driver more...

Author/Editor: Eswar Prasad.

Release Date: June, 2004

China’s transformation into a dynamic private-sector-led economy and its integration into the world economy have been among the most dramatic global economic developments of recent decades. This more...

Author/Editor: Ashoka Mody, Robert P Flood.

Release Date: June, 2004

This is the 2004 (Volume 51) Special Issue of IMF Staff Papers, which includes 6 selected papers (from more than 20) that were presented at the IMF's Fourth Annual Research Conference, November 6-7, more...

Author/Editor: Vivek B. Arora, Athanasios Vamvakidis.

Release Date: February, 2004

This paper empirically examines the extent to which a country's economic growth is influenced by its trading partner economies. Panel estimation results based on four decades of data for over 100 more...

Author/Editor: Petia Topalova.

Release Date: February, 2004

Using a panel of firm-level data, this paper examines the effects of India's trade reforms in the early 1990s on firm productivity in the manufacturing sector, focusing on the interaction between more...

Author/Editor: Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko, Padamja Khandelwal, Alexander Lehmann.

Release Date: October, 2003

We assess the current barriers to trade in financial services in the six Central American countries seeking a free trade agreement with the United States (the CAFTA) and examine the relative merits more...

Release Date: April, 2003

This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since more...

Release Date: March, 2003

The Manual sets out an internationally agreed framework for the compilation and reporting of statistics on international trade in services in the broad sense. It addresses the growing need, including more...

Author/Editor: Wanda S Tseng, Markus Rodlauer.

Release Date: February, 2003

China's economic reforms over the past two decades have brought tremendous economic transformation, rapid growth, and closer integration into the global economy. Real income per capita has increased more...

Author/Editor: R G Gelos, Jorge Roldos.

Release Date: November, 2002

This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in more...