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Chapter IV. Will toil Market Continue to be Tight? »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2005 : Globalization and External Balances
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2004
ISBN: 9781589064294
Keywords: remittances, debt, foreign assets, interest, oil prices
During most of the 1990s, real crude oil prices (expressed in 2003 dollars) fluctuated about $20 a barrel. Moreover, the oil market experienced periods of high volatility only during the Middle East conflict...
Chapter III How Has Globalization Affected Inflation? »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2006 : Globalization and Inflation
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589065499
Keywords: inflation, debt, interest, oil prices, debtor countries
Inflation in advanced and many emerging market economies has remained remarkably subdued over the past two years despite a significant rise in commodity prices, strong growth, and a broadly accommodating mon...
Chapter 2 Country and Regional Perspectives »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2006 : Financial Systems and Economic Cycles
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 April 2006
ISBN: 9781589065987
Keywords: debt, financial systems, interest, productivity growth, payments
Against the backdrop of the global outlook discussed in Chapter 1, this chapter analyzes prospects and policy issues in the major industrial countries and in the main regional groupings of emerging market an...
Chapter I. Economic Prospects and Policy Issues »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2005 : Globalization and External Balances
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2004
ISBN: 9781589064294
Keywords: remittances, debt, foreign assets, interest, oil prices
The global economic expansion has remained broadly on track, evolving largely as expected when the last World Economic Outlook was published in September 2004. After averaging about 6 percent in late 2003 an...
Chapter I Economic Prospects and Policy Issues »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2006 : Globalization and Inflation
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589065499
Keywords: inflation, debt, interest, oil prices, debtor countries
The momentum and resilience of the global economy in 2005 continued to exceed expectations (Table 1.1 and Figure 1.2). Despite higher oil prices and natural disasters, activity in the second half of 2005 was...
CHAPTER I. ECONOMIC PROSPECTS AND POLICY ISSUES »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2004 : The Global Demographic Transition
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 April 2004
ISBN: 9781589064065
Keywords: debt, interest, exchange rate, oil prices, payments
Over the past year, the global recovery has become increasingly well established, with global GDP growth now projected to average 5 percent in 2004, the highest for nearly three decades (Figure...
Chapter II. Two Current Issues Facing Developing Countries »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2005 : Globalization and External Balances
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 September 2004
ISBN: 9781589064294
Keywords: remittances, debt, foreign assets, interest, oil prices
This chapter contains two essays focusing on developing countries. The first deals with the determinants and the implications of inflows of workers’ remittances, while the second essay examines the sources o...
Chapter 1 Global Prospects and Policy Issues »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2006 : Financial Systems and Economic Cycles
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 19 April 2006
ISBN: 9781589065987
Keywords: debt, financial systems, interest, productivity growth, payments
Global Economic Environment The global expansion was broad-based in the first half of 2006, with activity in most regions meeting or exceeding expectations, and recent indicators sug...
Chapter III. HOW WILL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AFFECT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY? »
Source: World Economic Outlook, September 2004 : The Global Demographic Transition
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 April 2004
ISBN: 9781589064065
Keywords: debt, interest, exchange rate, oil prices, payments
It seems possible that a society in which the proportion of young people is diminishing will become dangerously unprogressive, falling behind other communities not o...
Chapter II Oil Prices and Global Imbalances »
Source: World Economic Outlook, April 2006 : Globalization and Inflation
Series: World Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 September 2005
ISBN: 9781589065499
Keywords: inflation, debt, interest, oil prices, debtor countries
Two developments have dominated the international economic landscape over the past several years. First, large global external imbalances have persisted, including a large current account deficit in the Unit...