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Bangladesh : Selected Issues.
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ISBN: 1462335365 1452797986 1280978198 1463933681 9786613749802 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This Selected Issues paper analyzes poverty in Bangladesh. The paper highlights that poverty in Bangladesh has many facets, including low income, inadequate calorie intake, poor health and educational attainment, and limited access to social services. The paper reviews the recent trends in social indicators. It discusses definitions and the measurement of poverty, and relates poverty to growth scenarios. Poverty alleviation programs are reviewed, and the government’s strategies to reduce poverty are also highlighted.


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Capital Flows in a Transitional Economy and the Sterilization Dilemma : The Hungarian Case
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ISBN: 146234996X 1455293903 1281601373 9786613782069 1455229210 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper compares Hungary’s experience with sterilization with that of other capital inflow episodes. The study focuses on the short-run impact of sterilization on monetary policy. The empirical data indicate that sterilized interventions by the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) were not significant until mid-1994, sometime after the return to power of the former Communist leaders. Thus, in the second half of 1994, the NBH began to demonstrate more firmly its independence by tightening monetary policy. By the beginning of 1995, the direction of fiscal policy had begun to show consonance with the overall aims of monetary policy.


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Inflation, Nominal Interest Rates, and the Variability of Output
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ISBN: 1462328741 1455243477 1282109731 9786613802620 1455281700 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper examines the distribution of output around capacity when money demand is a nonlinear function of the nominal interest rate such that nominal interest rates cannot become negative. When fluctuations in output result primarily from disturbances to the money market, the variance of output is shown to be an increasing function of the trend inflation rate. When they result from disturbances to the goods market, the variance of output is a decreasing function of the trend inflation rate. When both disturbances are significant, there exists, in general, a critical non-zero trend inflation rate that minimizes the variance of output.


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Broad Money Demand and Financial Liberalization in Greece
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ISBN: 1462389368 1455256544 1281203394 1455284688 9786613777546 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper develops a constant, data-coherent, error correction model for broad money demand (M3) in Greece. The model contributes to a better understanding of the effects of monetary policy in Greece, and of the portfolio consequences of financial innovation in general. The broad monetary aggregate M3 was targeted until recently, and current Greek monetary policy still uses such aggregates as guidelines, yet analysis of this aggregate has been dormant for over a decade. Inspite of large fluctuations in the inflation rate, introduction of new financial instruments, and liberalization of the financial system, the estimated model is remarkably stable. The dynamics of money demand are important, with price and income elasticities being much smaller in the short run than in the long run.


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Policy towards Commodity Shocks in Developing Countries
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ISBN: 146234190X 1455298948 1281311332 145524838X 9786613778529 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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On the basis of a comparative study of 23 episodes involving commodity price shocks we find that both the public and private sectors typically save around half of a windfall gain resulting from a price rise. We argue that private windfalls should be left with the private sector rather than taxed. The focus of policy towards windfalls should be monetary rather than fiscal. The central bank should accommodate aggregate changes in the demand for financial assets. The private sector will initially wish to increase its claims on the central bank as it saves the windfall, but will then reduce them as portfolios are switched into real assets.


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Jamaica : Recent Economic Developments.
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ISBN: 145526217X 1452700192 1280979100 9786613750716 1463906838 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper reviews economic developments in Jamaica since 1985. In the early 1990s, Jamaica carried out a number of important structural reforms that had a favorable effect on the public finances, resulting in overall public sector surpluses averaging 3 percent of GDP in FY1993–95. These steps included the elimination of general price subsidies and the decontrol of prices, the elimination of the import monopoly of the Jamaica Commodity Trading Corporation, and the institution of cost pass-through mechanisms for public enterprises.


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European integration, monetary co-ordination, and the demand for money
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ISBN: 019829011X Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press

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Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe : Lessons After Half a Decade of Transition
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ISBN: 1462311598 1455282820 1281258466 1455216119 9786613778055 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The paper uses data from transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe to assess four questions: (i) Did the standard blueprint for stabilization work, and was it implemented? (ii) To what extent was normal macroeconomics impeded by solvency problems in banks, and how successful have been policies to improve incentives within banks? (iii) Could financial markets and other infrastructure for monetary policy have been developed more quickly? (iv) How should transition economies respond to the monetary inflows that typically accompany success? The paper concludes by evaluating the changing advice offered by external agencies during the 1990s.


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Functioning of the International Monetary System
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ISBN: 1455232750 145523463X 1283538431 9786613850881 1455249696 9781455249695 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong analytic foundation. These two volumes, edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein, present 30 analytic papers on the system as it functioned during 1987-91 and aim at conveying the flavor of those issues that commanded close attention in the Fund's research program.

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