## IMF Research Bulletin, March 2011

_IMF Research Bulletin, March 1, 2011_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: March 1, 2011
- Series: IMF Research Bulletin
- Volume: 59
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455295661.026

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### Overview
- Q&A in this issue features seven questions on the role of precautionary savings in open economies (by Damiano Sandri).
- Research summaries in this issue:
  - "The Macroeconomics of Aid" (by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Luis-Felipe Zanna)
  - "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;
  - recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes.

### Major themes and topics covered
- Precautionary savings in open economies
- Aid and macroeconomic implications
- Measurement of inflation and price indexes
- Cross-cutting subjects: expenditure, financial crises, foreign exchange, national accounts, real exchange rates, public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)
- Region and issue coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa, shock transmission, cross-country incidence of the global crisis, global recession, evidence from the Crisis

### Subjects and keywords
- 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

*International Monetary Fund. IMF Research Bulletin, March 2011.*

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