Release Date: October, 2018

The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) Yearbook, usually published in October, contains data on the value of merchandise exports and imports among 183 countries and all their trading partners. The more...

Release Date: July, 2014

Author/Editor: Natalie Chen, Luciana Juvenal.

Release Date: March, 2014

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand more...

Author/Editor: Stephanie Medina Cas, Andrew Swiston, Luis-Diego Barrot.

Release Date: September, 2012

This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional more...

Author/Editor: Ehsan U. Choudhri, Dalia Hakura.

Release Date: September, 2012

Using both regression- and VAR-based estimates, the paper finds that the exchange rate pass-through to import prices for a large number of countries is incomplete and larger than the pass-through to more...

Release Date: July, 2012

Release Date: June, 2012

This Selected Issues Paper focuses on the Heritage and Stabilization Fund (HSF) and development in the energy sector in Trinidad and Tobago. The HSF, established in 2007, is an important national more...

Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Elena Dumitrescu, Andreas Freytag, Marc Quintyn.

Release Date: June, 2012

We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980-2010. Our main findings is that prior to capital account liberalization the more...

Author/Editor: Aaditya Mattoo, Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian.

Release Date: March, 2012

This paper estimates the impact of China's exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets, which we call the spillover effect. We use recent theory to develop an more...

Author/Editor: Sebastian Sosa, Gustavo Adler.

Release Date: December, 2011

Commodity-exporting countries have significantly benefited from the commodity price boom of recent years. At the current juncture, however, uncertain global economic prospects have raised questions more...

Release Date: October, 2011

The Arab Spring holds the promise of improved living standards and a more prosperous future for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. At the same time, the region is witnessing more...

Release Date: October, 2011

Release Date: October, 2011

Author/Editor: Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro, Darlena Tartari Schwegler, Carlos Caceres.

Release Date: October, 2011

This paper analyses inflation dynamics in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) using a constructed dataset for country-specific commodity price indices and panel cointegrated more...

Release Date: August, 2011

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff more...

Release Date: August, 2011

Statistics of Kuwait’s economics are presented in this paper. Some of the areas covered include gross domestic product prices, gross domestic expenditure; production, disposal, and prices of oil, more...

Release Date: June, 2011

Release Date: May, 2011

Release Date: May, 2011

Release Date: April, 2011