IMF Research Bulletin, March 2011
March 1, 2011
Summary
The Q&A in this issue features seven questions on the role of precautionary savings in open economies (by Damiano Sandri); the research summaries are "The Macroeconomics of Aid (by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Luis-Felipe Zanna) and "The Building Blocks to Measure Inflation" (by Mick Silver). The issue also lists the contents of the March 2011 issue of the IMF Economic Review, Volume 59 Number 1; visiting scholars at the IMF during January?March 2011; and recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes.
Subject: Expenditure, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, National accounts, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Prices, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates
Keywords: cross-country incidence, economic policy issue, evidence from the Crisis, Global, global recession, IRB, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates, shock transmission, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis
Pages:
12
Volume:
2011
DOI:
Issue:
001
Series:
IMF Research Bulletin No. 2011/001
Stock No:
IRBEA2011001
ISBN:
9781455295661
ISSN:
1020-8313






