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Stabilization Problems and Policies in Tunisia »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1970
Volume/Issue: 7/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1970
ISBN: 9781616353001
Keywords: human environment, environment, environmental problem, environmental impact
This paper analyzes the impact of economic development on the environment. The paper highlights that the environmental impact of the industrial process includes everything from the effects of withdrawing the inputs...

Recent Activity—International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, and International Finance Corporation »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1970
Volume/Issue: 7/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1970
ISBN: 9781616353001
Keywords: human environment, environment, environmental problem, environmental impact
This paper analyzes the impact of economic development on the environment. The paper highlights that the environmental impact of the industrial process includes everything from the effects of withdrawing the inputs...

United Arab Emirates: Selected Issues »
Source: United Arab Emirates : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2015/220
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 August 2015
ISBN: 9781513524634
Keywords: environment, subsidies, prices, revenue, oil
This Selected Issues paper discusses measures to strengthen fiscal policy and budget frameworks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It provides an overview of government's revenue and expenditure developments, and p...

Recent Activity–International bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association, and International Finance Corporation »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1972
Volume/Issue: 9/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1972
ISBN: 9781616353100
Keywords: pollution, population growth, population problem, demographers, world population
This paper describes what the limits to growth are. The paper highlights that many critical variables in global society-particularly population and industrial production-have been growing at a constant percentage r...

Index 1996–Volume 33 »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1996
Volume/Issue: 33/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1996
ISBN: 9781451951899
Keywords: environmentally sustainable development, environment, sustainable development, rural development
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...

World Development Report 198: Industrialization and Foreign Trade - Critical issues in their inter-relationship and effects on growth »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1987
Volume/Issue: 24/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1987
ISBN: 9781616353704
Keywords: environment, trade, environments, development, industrialization
The enhancement of the IMF's structural adjustment facility is discussed. In its April 1987 meeting, the IMF's Interim Committee highlighted the plight of low-income countries, and outlined a strategy for their rec...

Are Economywide Policies Good for the Environment? »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1993
Volume/Issue: 30/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1993
ISBN: 9781451952117
Keywords: public health, health care, clinical services, health spending, child mortality
For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly...

If Not Now, When? Energy Price Reform in Arab Countries; April 2017 Rabat, Morocco »
Source: If Not Now, When? Energy Price Reform in Arab Countries; April 2017 Rabat, Morocco
Volume/Issue: 2017/030
Series: Policy Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 June 2017
ISBN: 9781498346733
Keywords: Social safety nets, Economic conditions, Oil prices, Purchasing power, Price controls, oil importer, energy price, reference price, energy subsidy, price gap
Regulating energy prices has been a common practice around the world. The objective is, generally, to facilitate access to energy products, which are central to people's well-being and countries' economic developme...

The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy1 »
Source: The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy
Volume/Issue: 2015/259
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kamiar Mohaddes , and Mehdi Raissi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 December 2015
ISBN: 9781513509846
Keywords: Tight oil, shale oil, fracking revolution, oil price decline, oil supply, global macroeconometric modeling, international business cycle, oil, prices, oil prices
This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of falling oil prices due to the oil revolution in the United States, using a Global VAR model estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2...

Assessing Oil and Non-Oil GDP Growth from Space: An Application to Yemen 2012-17 »
Source: Assessing Oil and Non-Oil GDP Growth from Space: An Application to Yemen 2012-17
Volume/Issue: 2019/221
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Majdi Debbich
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 October 2019
ISBN: 9781513514567
Keywords: Oil producing countries, National income, Oil production, Economic growth, Development, conflict, nighttime lights, WP, nightlights, real GDP
This paper uses an untapped source of satellite-recorded nightlights and gas flaring data to characterize the contraction of economic activity in Yemen throughout the ongoing conflict that erupted in 2015. Using es...