IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1

IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1 PDF Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9781589064195
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss: whether output recovered after the Asian crisis; the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth; whether interdependence is a factor in understanding the spread of currency crises; can remittance payments from expatriates be a reliable source of capital for economic development?; total factor productivity; designing a VAT for the energy trade in Russia and Ukraine; and lastly, a discussion of the reasons for central bank intervention in ERM-I since 1993