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Brazil: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix »
Source: Brazil : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
Volume/Issue: 2001/10
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 January 2001
ISBN: 9781451805901
Keywords: interest, deficit, debt, interest payments, budget
This paper analyzes several issues regarding fiscal sustainability and fiscal adjustment in Brazil during 1990 and searches for econometric evidence of a monetary dominant regime during some subperiods. The followi...
Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms »
Source: Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Volume/Issue: 2008/26
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yuko Kinoshita , and Nauro Campos
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2008
ISBN: 9781451868883
Keywords: fdi, financial sector, direct investment
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Lat...
Taxation in Latin America »
Source: Taxation in Latin America : Structural Trends and Impact of Administration
Volume/Issue: 1999/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Parthasarathi Shome
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 1999
ISBN: 9781451843729
Keywords: Latin America, taxation trends, tax administration, tax structure, taxation, personal income tax
From the mid-1980s to early 1990s, Latin American tax policy provided rich lessons for other reforming countries. Meaningful innovations led also to perceptible revenue gains. Later in the 1990s, tax policies began...
Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices »
Source: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices : Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?
Volume/Issue: 2001/194
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Dalia Hakura , and Ehsan Choudhri
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2001
ISBN: 9781451859867
Keywords: Pass-through, exchange rate, inflation rate, average inflation, average inflation rate, Open Economy Macroeconomics,
The paper tests a hypothesis suggested by Taylor (2000) that a low inflationary environment leads to a low exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices. To test this hypothesis, the paper derives a pass-through re...
How Macroeconomic Factors Affect Income Distribution »
Source: How Macroeconomic Factors Affect Income Distribution : The Cross-Country Evidence
Volume/Issue: 1997/152
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Michael Sarel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 November 1997
ISBN: 9781451922714
Keywords: income distribution, macroeconomic factors, terms of trade, external position, income distribution data, distribution of income
This study develops a cross-section empirical framework to examine the relationship between the macroeconomic environment and trends in income distribution. The macroeconomic variables that are found to be associat...
Bond Restructuring and Moral Hazard »
Source: Bond Restructuring and Moral Hazard : Are Collective Action Clauses Costly?
Volume/Issue: 2001/92
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Torbjorn Becker , Anthony Richards , and Yunyong Thaicharoen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2001
ISBN: 9781451851595
Keywords: Bond restructuring, contract design, law, bonds, bond, bondholders, International Lending and Debt Problems,
Many official groups have endorsed the wider use by emerging market borrowers of contract clauses which allow for a qualified majority of bondholders to restructure repayment terms in the event of financial distres...
APPENDIX III A Review of Policies in Fund Programs, 1980–84 »
Source: Fund-Supported Programs, Fiscal Policy, and Income Distribution
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1986
ISBN: 9780939934645
Keywords: taxation, expenditure, salaries, subsidies, income distribution
Selection of the Sample The Fund approved 117 stand-by programs and 23 extended facilities from January 1980 to December 1984, for 68 countries. Twenty-two countries had programs in...
III Recent Developments in Private Market Financing »
Source: Private Market Financing for Developing Countries
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1995
ISBN: 9781557755261
Keywords: debt, interest, bonds, bond, payments
Developing countries experienced a dramatic increase in capital inflows during the 1990s, following a slowdown in economic activity in the industrial countries and a decline in interest rates, particularly i...
Appendix VII. Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 1999 »
Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1999
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 September 1999
ISBN: 9781451945232
Keywords: interest, debt, payments, loans, external debt
DirectorAlternate CastingVotes of Votes byCountry TotalVotes...
Statistical Appendix »
Source: Private Market Financing for Developing Countries
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1995
ISBN: 9781557755261
Keywords: debt, interest, bonds, bond, payments
Table A1. Chronology of Bank Debt Restructurings and Bank Financial Packages...