Download or read book Inflation Price Controls and Fiscal Adjustment in Zimbabwe written by Ajay Chhibber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation written by Mr. Kangni R Kpodar and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.
Download or read book Foreign Aid New Perspectives written by K. L. Gupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign aid has been an area of active scholarly investigation since the end of the Second World War, but particularly since the early 1950s when a large number of the erstwhile colonies became independent. Few areas of public policy involving the developed and developing countries have aroused more passion and ideological debate than foreign aid. In spite of the massive amount of research in the field, there is still not enough work in two areas: the first involves the mechanisms through which aid influences the economies of the donor and the recipient countries; and the second, country-specific assessments of the effectiveness of foreign aid. Foreign Aid: New Perspectives is aimed at making a contribution in these two areas. The contents of this volume are divided into four parts. Part I deals with some theoretical aspects of foreign aid, while the second part analyzes some general policy aspects. Part III turns to the donor experience and includes one paper on the Danish experience. The last part considers the recipient experience and consists of five case studies.
Download or read book Africa s Rising Inflation written by Ajay Chhibber and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a link between devaluation and high inflation? It depends on accompanying monetary and fiscal policies and the presence of parallel markets. An open capital account would curtail fiscal profligacy and provide price stability without jeopardizing growth.
Download or read book The CFA Franc Zone written by Ms.Anne Marie Gulde and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one-third of countries covered by the IMF's African Department are members of the CFA franc zone. With most other countries moving away from fixed exchange rates, the issue of an adequate policy framework to ensure the sustainability of the CFA franc zone is clearly of interest to policymakers and academics. However, little academic research exists in the public domain. This book aims to fill this void by bringing together work undertaken in the context of intensified regional surveillance and highlighting the current challenges and the main policy requirements if the arrangements are to be carried forward. The book is based on empirical research by a broad group of IMF economists, with contributions from several outside experts.
Download or read book Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe written by Tara McIndoe-Calder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe in the 2000s. The authors present a full description of the Zimbabwean hyperinflation in its relevant economic, historical and political context. They address parallels with other hyperinflations, discuss the economics of hyperinflation in general and of the Zimbabwean hyperinflation in particular, and provide a money demand estimation using a new dataset. The study concludes with several policy lessons. This book will be of interest to researchers in both social sciences and the humanities, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in development economics, and those in the banking industry.
Download or read book Financial Policies Growth and Efficiency written by Alan H. Gelb and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coffee Pricing Policies in the Dominican Republic written by Panos Varangis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Public Finance Trade and Development written by Vittorio Corbo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructuring the public sector and eradicating chronic public sector deficits helped Chile lay the basis for microeconomic reforms that removed distortions and put Chile in a sustainable growth path. But macroeconomic policy errors of the late 1970s delayed the growth effects of these reforms.
Download or read book Conditionality and Debt Relief written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax Holidays and Investment written by Jack M. Mintz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tax holiday -- designed to encourage capital investments -- actually penalizes long -term investments in some countries with high inflation rates and relatively fast writeoffs for depreciable capital.
Download or read book International Differences in Wage and Nonwage Labor Costs written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Has the Debt Crisis Affected Commercial Banks written by Harry Huizinga and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book efficient debt reduction written by Jeffrey Sachs and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debt reduction poses collective action problems that cannot be efficiently handled in the framework of voluntary market-based approaches. Instead we need concerted debt restructuring, based on below-market interest rates -- perhaps linked with credit enhancement by official creditors -- to provide the most direct mechanism for efficient, equitable sharing of losses.
Download or read book Cash Flow Or Income written by Jack M. Mintz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Primary Level Science Teaching in the Philippines written by Marlaine E. Lockheed and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
