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Exchange Rate Arrangements and Currency Convertibility : Developments and Issues »
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): R. Johnston , and Mark Swinburne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 September 1999
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557757951.083
ISBN: 9781557757951
Keywords: foreign exchange, exchange rate, foreign exchange market, interbank market
This study reviews the developments and issues in the exchange arrangements and currency convertibility of IMF members. The principal information source for this report is the Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements...
The Lao People's Democratic Republic : Systemic Transformation and Adjustment »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Ichiro Otani , and Chi Pham
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 May 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557755605.084
ISBN: 9781557755605
Keywords: banking, exchange rate, foreign exchange, privatization, foreign investment
Faced with a steadily worsening economy, the government of the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic took its first steps toward reforming its centrally planned economy in December 1979. The reform process gathered momen...
Vietnam : Transition to a Market Economy »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Krishna Srinivasan , Erich Spitäller , M. Braulke , Christian Mulder , Hisanobu Shishido , Kenneth M. Miranda , John Dodsworth , and Keon Lee
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557755384.084
ISBN: 9781557755384
Keywords: exchange rate, inflation, foreign exchange, state enterprises, exchange rates
The paper explores the pattern of transition of the Vietnamese economy, the policies that were applied, and the reasons for the country's success. In particular, it focuses on output performance; state-owned enterp...
The Romanian Economic Reform Program »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Mohsin Khan , and Dimitri Demekas
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 June 1991
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557751904.084
ISBN: 9781557751904
Keywords: banking, foreign trade, foreign exchange, price liberalization, reform program
This paper outlines the main characteristics and the development of the centrally planned economic sysetm in Romania before the beginnings of the transition to a market eonomy it then presents the design, objective...
International Capital Markets : Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues, 1996 »
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 September 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756091.083
ISBN: 9781557756091
Keywords: banking, foreign exchange, bond, bonds, banking system
Provides a comprehensive survey of recent developments in international financial markets, including developments in emerging capital markets, bond markets, major currency markets, and derivative markets. The repor...
Yemen in the 1990s : From Unification to Economic Reform »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Nada Choueiri , Klaus-Stefan Enders , Yuri Sobolev , Jan Walliser , and Sherwyn Williams
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 May 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060425.084
ISBN: 9781589060425
Keywords: foreign exchange, exchange rate, crude oil, oil prices, petroleum products
The 1990s saw the unification of the two Yemens into one nation and a burgeoning of the country's oil sector. This paper examines the structural changes in the Yemeni economy brought about by these and other develo...
Capital Controls : Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Akira Ariyoshi , Andrei Kirilenko , Inci Ötker , Bernard Laurens , Jorge Canales Kriljenko , and Karl Habermeier
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 May 2000
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557758743.084
ISBN: 9781557758743
Keywords: capital inflows, exchange rate, capital controls, capital flows, foreign exchange
This paper examines country experiences with the use and liberalization of capital controls to develop a deeper understanding of the role of capital controls in coping with volatile capital flows, as well as the is...
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1979 »
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 September 1979
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616351915.011
ISBN: 9781616351915
Keywords: exchange rate, repurchases, balance of payments, current account, foreign exchange
This paper reviews key findings of the IMF's Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1979. The report highlights that the performance of the world economy during 1978 and the first half of 1979 was charac...
Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia »
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756343.071
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
As Africa looks for ways to deepen and accelerate the economic reform process, what lessons can East Asia offer? this book edited by Laura Wallace, records the proceedings of a seminar that involved a dynamic excha...
IMF History Volume 3 (1945-1965) : Twenty Years of International Monetary Cooperation Volume III: Documents »
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 February 1996
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451972511.071
ISBN: 9781451972511
Keywords: gold, member country, balance of payments, foreign exchange, international trade
This paper comprises documents relating to the history of the IMF, including some that preceded the drafting of the Articles of Agreement. The paper highlights that the first draft of Lord Keynes' plan for a Cleari...