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23 Mexico »
Source: Fiscal Federalism in Theory and Practice
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 September 1997
ISBN: 9781557756633
Keywords: tax administration, taxation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, tax revenue, local governments
Mexico has a complex system of intergovernmental fiscal relations, characterized by a relatively high degree of expenditure centralization and by limited revenue-raising powers of state and municipal governm...

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan »
Source: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan : Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Summary Report
Volume/Issue: 2006/195
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2006
ISBN: 9781451800272
Keywords: national assembly, human rights, civil service, law enforcement, national security
This Summary Report describes Afghanistan's Interim National Development Strategy (I-ANDS). It assesses the overall policy objectives, analyzes the context of and constraints to the achievement of those objectives,...

Chapter 2 Evaluation Projects Undertaken in FY2003–04 »
Source: IEO Annual Report 2004
Series: Independent Evaluation Office Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 14 March 2005
ISBN: 9781589064362
Keywords: capital account, capital account liberalization, capital account crises, exchange rate, conditionality
This chapter summarizes the main findings and recommendations of the two most recently completed evaluation reports along with the conclusions reached in the respective Executive Board discussions. It also b...

15 The Missing Pillar of a Growth Strategy for Ukraine: Reforms for Private Sector Development »
Source: Ukraine : Accelerating the Transition to Market
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 February 1997
ISBN: 9781557756190
Keywords: wage, benefits, pension, wages, inflation
The King shall protect trade routes from harassment by courtiers, state officials, thieves and frontier guards and from being damaged by herds of cattle…. Frontier o...

6 Lending Programs, Guarantees, and Quasi-Fiscal Operations »
Source: Public Expenditure Management
Series: Books
Author(s): A. Premchand
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 1993
ISBN: 9781557753236
Keywords: expenditure, expenditure management, expenditures, ministry of finance, public expenditure
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—...

CHAPTER I ECONOMIC PROSPECTS AND POLICY ISSUES »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2005 : Building Institutions
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064546
Keywords: inflation, current account, inflation targeting, oil prices, institutional quality
The expansion remains broadly on track, with global growth forecasts for 2005 and 2006 largely unchanged from the last World Economic Outlook (Table 1.1 and Figure 1.1), although risks are still slanted to t...

Chapter II GLOBAL IMBALANCES: A SAVING AND INVESTMENT PERSPECTIVE »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2005 : Building Institutions
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064546
Keywords: inflation, current account, inflation targeting, oil prices, institutional quality
Global saving and investment rates have fallen and current account imbalances have widened to unprecedented levels, yet real long-term interest rates remain low in most countries. H...

CHAPTER III BUILDING INSTITUTIONS »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2005 : Building Institutions
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064546
Keywords: inflation, current account, inflation targeting, oil prices, institutional quality
With one billion people in developing countries living on less than $1 a day, the alleviation of extreme poverty remains high on the policy agenda of the international community. De...

CHAPTER IV DOES INFLATION TARGETING WORK IN EMERGING MARKETS? »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2005 : Building Institutions
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064546
Keywords: inflation, current account, inflation targeting, oil prices, institutional quality
Inflation targeting has become an increasingly popular monetary policy strategy, with some 21 countries (8 industrial and 13 emerging market) now inflation targeters. Other countrie...

Statistical Appendix »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2005 : Building Institutions
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 April 2005
ISBN: 9781589064546
Keywords: inflation, current account, inflation targeting, oil prices, institutional quality
The statistical appendix presents historical data, as well as projections. It comprises five sections: Assumptions, What’s New, Data and Conventions, Classification of Countries, an...