- The determinants of banking crises : evidence from industrial and developing countries
- Asli Demirguc-Kunt; Enrica Detragiache / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Vulnerability to crises in the banking sector appears to be associated with these factors: a weak macroeconomic environment characterized by slow GDP growth and high inflation, vulnerability to sudden capital outflows, low liquidity i...
- Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries
- Aymo Brunetti; Gregory Kisunko; Beatrice Weder / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Financial sector adjustment lending : a mid - course analysis
- Robert J. Cull / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?
- Harry Huizinga / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Single - equation estimation of the equilibrium real exchange rate
- J. Baffes; I. A. Elbadawi; S. A. O'Connell / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Aid, Taxation, and Development: Analytical Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
- C.S. Adam; S.A. O'Connell / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- Designing effective aid programs requires accurately diagnosing problems. Under current donor efforts to promote democratization and institutional development, the shift from policy to institutional conditionality reflects an attempt ...
- Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area
- Meshack Tunee Tjirongo / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs asso...
- Determinants of the real exchange rate in South Africa
- Janine Aron; Ibrahim Elbadawi; Brian Kahn / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
- The real exchange rate is a key policy variable in South Africa's open economy. A cointegration framework is used with single equation equilibrium correction models to investigate the short-run and long-run equilibrium determinants of...
- Trade liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa : case study of South Africa
- Carolyn Jenkins; Michael Bleaney; Merle Holden / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
- A striking feature of South Africa's trade liberalisation is that, until 1995, it did not involve any import liberalisation. The focus of earlier liberalisation was the reduction of anti-export bias, and, on the import side, the repla...
- The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
- P. Krishnan; Tesfaye Gebre Selassie; S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiop...
- Authorities' roles and organizational issues in systemic bank restructuring
- Peter Nyberg / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Banking crises in Latin America in the 1990s : lessons from Argentina, Paraguay, and Venezuela
- Alicia Garcia-Herrero / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper reviews three banking crises that took place in Latin America in the 1990s.those of Argentina, Paraguay, and Venezuela.and draws lessons about the factors affecting the macroeconomic impact. The causes of such crises influe...
- Capital flows and the twin crises : the role of liquidity
- Ilan Goldfajn / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Capital flows to Brazil : the endogeneity of capital controls
- Eliana A Cardoso; Ilan Goldfajn / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper investigates the determinants of capital flows to Brazil and constructs an index of capital controls that includes restrictions on both outflows and inflows. Using monthly capital flows data from the Central Bank of Brazil,...
- The CFA franc zone and the EMU
- Michael T Hadjimichael; Michel Galy / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The prospective shift of the peg of the CFA franc from the French franc to the euro raises a number of questions. Will this change require simply a decision by the CFA franc countries themselves together with France, or will it involv...
- Cyclical fluctuations in Brazil's real exchange rate : the role of domestic and external factors
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; Alexander W Hoffmaister; Carlos I Medeiros / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The paper examines the links between capital inflows and the real exchange rate in Brazil. The first part presents the analytical background. The second part estimates a vector autoregression model linking capital inflows, the interes...
- The determinants of banking crises : evidence from developing and developed countries
- Asl Demirguc-Kunt; Enrica Detragiache / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- In the 1980s and early 1990s several countries experienced severe banking crises. This study attempts to identify which features of the economic environment tend to breed banking sector problems by econometrically estimating the proba...
- Do central banks need capital?
- Peter Stella / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Do tax rates encourage entrepreneurial activity?
- Roger H. Gordon / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Effects of the European economic and monetary union (EMU) on taxation and interest spending of national governments
- Francesco P Mongelli / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
