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Africa's Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
Author/Editor: Paulo Drummond, Estelle X Liu. Release Date: December, 2013 Price: $18.00The rapid growth in China’s domestic investment in recent decades has generated a large appetite for global goods, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of more... |
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China's Economy in Transition : From External to Internal Rebalancing
Author/Editor: Anoop Singh, Malhar S Nabar, Papa M N'Diaye. Release Date: November, 2013 Price: $30.00China's current account surplus has declined to around one-quarter the peak reached before the global financial crisis. While this is a major reduction in China's external imbalance, it has not been more... |
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China's Path to Consumer-Based Growth: Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency
Author/Editor: Il Houng Lee, Murtaza H Syed, Liu Xueyan. Release Date: March, 2013 Price: $18.00This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in more... |
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Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5: What are the Links?
Author/Editor: Dulani Seneviratne, Yan Sun. Release Date: February, 2013 Price: $18.00Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact more... |
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Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?
Author/Editor: Il Houng Lee, Murtaza H Syed, Liu Xueyan. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It finds that China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging more... |
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Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers
Author/Editor: Ashvin Ahuja, Malhar Nabar. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are more... |
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The Spillover Effects of a Downturn in China's Real Estate Investment
Author/Editor: Ashvin Ahuja, Alla Myrvoda. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Real estate investment accounts for a quarter of total fixed asset investment (FAI) in China. The real estate sector’s extensive industrial and financial linkages make it a special type of economic more... |
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Brazil's Capital Market : Current Status and Issues for Further Development
Author/Editor: Joonkyu Park. Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00Capital market development in Brazil is a key policy issue going forward to foster savings, investment and absorptive capacity in a context of prospects for sizable capital flows in the medium term. more... |
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Exchange Rate Fluctuations and International Portfolio Rebalancing in Thailand
Author/Editor: Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Subhanij Tientip. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00We present empirical evidence that the Thai baht’s value is driven in part by investors’ cross-border equity portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on comprehensive more... |
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People's Republic of China: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: July, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Great Recession and Fiscal Squeeze at U.S. Subnational Government Level
Author/Editor: Jiri Jonas. Release Date: July, 2012 Price: $18.00The paper discusses the fiscal impact of the Great Recession of 2007-08 on state and local governments in the United States. It documents the sharp decline in tax revenue and discusses how states more... |
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Kuwait: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Release Date: June, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Government Bonds and Their Investors: What Are the Facts and Do They Matter?
Author/Editor: Jochen R. Andritzky. Release Date: June, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper introduces a new dataset on the composition of the investor base for government securities in the G20 advanced economies and the euro area. During the last decades, investors from abroad more... |
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Peru: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies, 1930 - 1980
Author/Editor: Gonzalo C. Pastor. Release Date: June, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper reviews monetary and exchange rate policies in Peru in 1930-80. The review covers major transformations to the world economy, including the post-1929 crash and WWII, and changing economic more... |
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Capital Inflows, Financial Development, and Domestic Investment: Determinants and Inter-Relationships
Author/Editor: Oana Luca, Nicola Spatafora. Release Date: May, 2012 Price: $18.00We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment in developing countries during 2001-07, a period of surging global liquidity and more... |
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The Volatility Trap: Precautionary Saving, Investment, and Aggregate Risk
Author/Editor: Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov. Release Date: May, 2012 Price: $18.00We study the effects of permanent and temporary income shocks on precautionary saving and investment in a store-or-sow model of growth. High volatility of permanent shocks results in high more... |
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Regional Economic Outlook, April 2012, Asia and Pacific : Managing Spillovers and Advancing Economic Rebalancing
Release Date: April, 2012 Price: $35.00Barring the realization of downside risks to the global economy, growth in the Asia and the Pacific region is expected to gain momentum over the course of 2012, according to this report, and now more... |
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Asymmetric Effects of the Financial Crisis: Collateral-Based Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Analysis
Author/Editor: Vadim Khramov. Release Date: April, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper uses the financial crisis of 2008 as a natural experiment to demonstrate that when measuring investment-cash flow sensitivity, the value of a firm's assets that can be used as collateral more... |
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Determinants of Corporate Investment in China: Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data
Author/Editor: Nan Geng, Papa N'Diaye. Release Date: March, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper analyzes the evolution of investment in China, its main features, and its key determinants. In recent years, manufacturing, real estate, and infrastructure have been the main drivers of more... |
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Cambodia: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: February, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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