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  • From Ambition to Execution

    The formal launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets the global development agenda through 2030, placing significant emphasis on promoting social and environmental sustainability alongside economic growth and poverty reduction. Meeting the SDGs will require actions across a wide range of areas by both national governments and the international community. This paper examines the types ... Read more

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  • A New Tool for Distributional Incidence Analysis

    An Application to Fuel Subsidy Reform

    Increased focus on income inequality and distributional issues has made incidence analysis a crucial input into policy decisions. This note presents the theoretical framework used to conduct incidence analysis of fuel price subsidy reform and presents a user-friendly tool for its application. This new tool requires limited inputs and has the advantage of using the commonly available software ... Read more

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  • Coping with the Global Financial Crisis: Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries

    Series Book 10 - Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
    This forthcoming title in the Departmental Paper Series describes the special challenges facing low-income countries as economic growth contracts by an estimated 1.1 percent globally. Coping with the Crisis: Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries provides an assessment of the implications of the financial crisis for low-income countries, evaluates the short-term macroeconomic outlook for these ... Read more

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  • The Adenosine Receptors

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the history of adenosine receptor research from molecular biology to medicinal chemistry to behavior, including their implications in disease and potential strategies as therapeutic targets. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the adenosine receptors that includes information on all subtypes - A1, A2A, A2B and A3. Aspects addressed include the most up to date ... Read more

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  • Should Italy Sell Its Nonfinancial Assets to Reduce the Debt?

    Series Book 08 - IMF Policy Discussion Papers
    This paper assesses the proposal, publicly debated in recent years in Italy, to reduce public debt by selling public assets, especially nonfinancial tangible assets. The main findings indicate that, although selling public assets has some merit if done to make more productive use of them, practical complications abound. Moreover, such sales might weaken underlying fiscal discipline. Other heavily ... Read more

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  • Chemicals and Fuels from Bio-Based Building Blocks

    An up-to-date and two volume overview of recent developments in the field of chemocatalytic and enzymatic processes for the transformation of renewable material into essential chemicals and fuels.Experts from both academia and industry discuss catalytic processes currently under development as well as those already in commercial use for the production of bio-fuels and bio-based commodity chemicals ... Read more

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  • The Baltics: Competitiveness on the Eve of EU Accession

    Large current account deficits in Estonia and Latvia, and the continued real appreciation of the exchange rate in Lithuania, have prompted concerns about the competitiveness of the Baltic economies, and called into question the sustainability of their current fixed exchange rate arrangements. Recent external performance, however, appears to be explained more by temporary or cyclical developments ... Read more

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  • Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications

    Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. Although they are aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital-intensive industries, reducing ... Read more

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  • Is the Glass Half Empty Or Half Full?

    Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments

    Series Book 15 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instruments. Water subsidies provided through public utilities are estimated at about $456 billion or 0.6 percent of global GDP in 2012. The paper suggests that getting economic incentives right, notably by reforming water pricing, can go a long way towards ... Read more

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  • Women, Work, and the Economy: Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity

    Series Book 13 - IMF Staff Discussion Notes
    The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of womens participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. Building on earlier Fund analysis, work undertaken by other organizations and academic research, the SDN presents possible policies to overcome these obstacles in different types of countries. ... Read more

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