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Chapter 3 Sovereign Wealth Funds: New Economic Realities and the Political Responses »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are on their way to a new normal. Having operated for many decades in quiet niches of global financial markets, SWFs became the subject of considerable political controversy in...
Chapter 9 Sovereign Wealth Funds and Recipient-Country Investment Policies: OECD Perspectives »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have much to offer. They can contribute to the economic development of their home countries by, for example, helping to diversify income sources for commodity-dependent economie...
5 Equity Issues in a Globalizing World: The Experience of OECD Countries »
Source: Economic Policy and Equity
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 May 1999
ISBN: 9781557757883
Keywords: income distribution, transition economies, income inequality, distribution of income, wage
Introduction Equity issues are fundamental to the formation of international economic policy. As illustrated by the Corn Laws in nineteenth-century Britain, who gains and who loses f...
21 Adapting Central Banking to a Changing Environment »
Source: Frameworks for Monetary Stability : Policy Issues and Country Experiences
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 December 1994
ISBN: 9781557754196
Keywords: central bank, monetary policy, interest, inflation, payments
The debate about central banking, which is as old as central banks themselves, has been given fresh impetus by a number of recent developments. In Europe, an unprecedented project to set up a supranational c...
Chapter 5. How Should Emerging Market and Low-Income Country Central Banks Respond to Commodity Price Shocks? »
Source: Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): Rabah Arezki , Catherine Pattillo , Marc Quintyn , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
ISBN: 9781616353797
Keywords: hedging, fiscal policy, inflation, terms of trade, food prices
Introduction Over the last two decades, inflation targeting (IT)—in either an explicit or an implicit form—has become the monetary policy framework of choice for most advanced econom...
Comments: Nancy Birdsall »
Source: Economic Policy and Equity
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 May 1999
ISBN: 9781557757883
Keywords: income distribution, transition economies, income inequality, distribution of income, wage
I would like to begin by congratulating the IMF for using its convocatory power to bring visibility and credibility to this critical issue of equity. Anthony Atkinson’s paper is both thoughtful and thought-p...
Chapter 7. Fiscal Policy for Commodity-Exporting Countries: Chile’s Experience »
Source: Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): Rabah Arezki , Catherine Pattillo , Marc Quintyn , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
ISBN: 9781616353797
Keywords: hedging, fiscal policy, inflation, terms of trade, food prices
Introduction Chile, a small economy strongly integrated into world markets, is an important producer and exporter of commodities. Copper dominates its market: Chile has a one-third s...
Chapter 6. Savings and Investment Decisions in Resource-Rich Low-Income Countries »
Source: Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries
Series: Books
Author(s): Rabah Arezki , Catherine Pattillo , Marc Quintyn , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 October 2012
ISBN: 9781616353797
Keywords: hedging, fiscal policy, inflation, terms of trade, food prices
Introduction Many of the poorest countries on Earth are in the throes of a double bonanza of high prices for their natural resource exports coupled with new discoveries. Over the nex...
4 Economic Policy and Equity: An Overview »
Source: Economic Policy and Equity
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 May 1999
ISBN: 9781557757883
Keywords: income distribution, transition economies, income inequality, distribution of income, wage
Introduction Not long ago I was shopping at a large supermarket in Boston when I could not help overhearing a conversation between a shopper pushing a big trolley and his child of ab...
1 Introduction »
Source: Economic Policy and Equity
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 May 1999
ISBN: 9781557757883
Keywords: income distribution, transition economies, income inequality, distribution of income, wage
Revisiting a topic that had been the subject of a largely analytical focus in a 1995 conference, the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department on June 8–9, 1998, hosted a conference on “Economic Policy and Equity.” Th...