IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1

IMF Staff Papers, April 18, 2005

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• Published: April 18, 2005
• Series: IMF Staff Papers
• Volume: 52
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589064195.024

Summary / Contents

• This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss:
  • whether output recovered after the Asian crisis;
  • the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth;
  • whether interdependence is a factor in understanding the spread of currency crises;
  • can remittance payments from expatriates be a reliable source of capital for economic development?;
  • total factor productivity;
  • designing a VAT for the energy trade in Russia and Ukraine; and
  • a discussion of the reasons for central bank intervention in ERM-I since 1993.

Key topics and themes

• Balance of payments
• Conventional peg
• Exchange rates
• Foreign exchange
• Production
• Remittances
• Taxes
• Total factor productivity
• Value-added tax

Keywords (as listed)

• Baltics
• Central Asia
• Conventional peg
• crisis probability
• East Asia
• Europe
• Exchange rates
• Global
• Middle East
• North Africa
• output loss
• recession state
• Remittances
• SP
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• TFP estimate
• Total factor productivity
• trading partner
• Value-added tax
• worker remittance