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VII Will the State and Local Budget Crisis Hinder Economic Growth? »
Source: U.S. Fiscal Policies and Priorities for Long-Run Sustainability
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Martin Mühleisen , and Christopher Towe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 07 January 2004
ISBN: 9781589062955
Keywords: Economic growth, medicare, tax cuts, health care, public debt, fiscal policy
Following a decade of strong revenue growth and significant surpluses, state and local governments (SLGs) are now facing significant budget shortfalls for a third consecutive year. At a time when the federal...

Appendix I Status of MTN Agreements1 »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
Agreement Accepted by Signed, Subject to Ratificati...

Appendix III Data on Antidumping, Safeguards, and Similar Actions »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
Table 7. United States: Antidumping, Countervailing Duties, and Escape Clause Actions During 1978–80 1...

Appendix II GATT Classifications »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
Classification of Countries and Regions Following the definitions used in the GATT publication, International Trade, 1979/80, the trading world is divided into:...

II Evolving Rules for World Trade »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
The principal features of each of the decisions and agreements emerging from the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTN) following their conclusion in 1979 have been described elsewhere....

Appendix IV Data on Sectoral Trade »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
Table 11. Electronic Products: Japanese Exports of Color Television Sets, 1978–80 (In thousands of units)...

III Recent Pressures for Protection »
Source: Trade Policy Developments in Industrial Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Wanda Tseng , Lorenzo Pérez , Zubair Iqbal , and Shailendra Anjaria
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 July 1981
ISBN: 9781557750822
Keywords: international trade, oil exporting, exporting developing countries, bilateral agreements, quantitative restrictions
Overview This section reviews recent trade actions and other commercial policy developments in selected industrial sectors of the main trading nations. Although not intended to be a...

V ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN CAPACITY BUILDING IN AFRICA »
Source: Capacity Building, Governance, and Economic Reform in Africa
Series: Seminar Volumes
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 02 October 2001
ISBN: 9781589060722
Keywords: les, pas, esp, growth rates, public sector
Ole Blicher Olsen Ambassador of Denmark to Ghana I looked at the program of the JAI for 1999-2000 and found it very interesti...

Back Matter »
Source: The Lao People's Democratic Republic : Systemic Transformation and Adjustment
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Ichiro Otani , and Chi Pham
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 May 1996
ISBN: 9781557755605
Keywords: banking, exchange rate, foreign exchange, privatization, foreign investment
Faced with a steadily worsening economy, the government of the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic took its first steps toward reforming its centrally planned economy in December 1979. The reform process gathered momen...