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The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges »
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589060357.071
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
This is the latest in a series of economic reports by staff economists in the IMF's Middle Eastern Department. This book discusses the latest economic data coming out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with a particu...
China : Competing in the Global Economy »
Series: Books
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , and Markus Rodlauer
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 February 2003
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589061781.071
ISBN: 9781589061781
Keywords: fdi, direct investment, foreign direct investment, nonperforming loans, tfp
China's economic reforms over the past two decades have brought tremendous economic transformation, rapid growth, and closer integration into the global economy. Real income per capita has increased fivefold, raisi...
Switzerland »
Source: Switzerland : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 1998/43
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 June 1998
ISBN: 9781451807158
Keywords: tfp, real gdp, growth rate, growth rates, output growth
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix evaluates Switzerland's long-term growth and productivity performance. It analyzes the behavior of Swiss fiscal policy over the business cycle and takes a fresh l...
Switzerland: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix »
Source: Switzerland : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 1998/43
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 June 1998
ISBN: 9781451807158
Keywords: tfp, real gdp, growth rate, growth rates, output growth
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix evaluates Switzerland's long-term growth and productivity performance. It analyzes the behavior of Swiss fiscal policy over the business cycle and takes a fresh l...
Switzerland: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix »
Source: Switzerland : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 1998/43
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 June 1998
ISBN: 9781451807158
Keywords: tfp, real gdp, growth rate, growth rates, output growth
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix evaluates Switzerland's long-term growth and productivity performance. It analyzes the behavior of Swiss fiscal policy over the business cycle and takes a fresh l...
1 Recent Developments in the Palestinian Economy »
Source: The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
The turmoil that erupted in the fall of 2000, and the closures that followed, have caused a sharp decline in economic activity in the West Bank and Gaza, not only dashing the prospects of a fourth consecutiv...
2 Demographics and Long-Term Growth in the Palestinian Economy »
Source: The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
The West Bank and Gaza has the highest population growth in the world. 1 Years of high fertility rates have created a very young population structure, with roughly half of the pop...
3 Transaction Costs in the Palestinian Economy: A Microeconomic Perspective »
Source: The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
A longstanding concern of Palestinian business people is the high level of transaction costs involved in conducting trade in the West Bank and Gaza, which for the most part are the product of a rather unique...
4 Palestinian Trade: Performance, Prospects, and Policy »
Source: The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
Openness to foreign trade is probably the single most important factor in supporting the growth and development of a small economy like the West Bank and Gaza. One implication of this proposition, which is s...
5 Fiscal Policy: The Challenges from Demographic Dynamics and Other Medium-Term Developments »
Source: The West Bank and Gaza : Economic Performance, Prospects, and Policies: Achieving Prosperity and Confronting Demographic Challenges
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2001
ISBN: 9781589060357
Keywords: employment, tfp, exchange rate, trucks, expenditure
The West Bank and Gaza faces considerable challenges over the medium term, and the fiscal policy of the Palestinian Authority (PA) can play an important role in overcoming them. For example, Chapter 2 discus...