## IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1

_IMF Staff Papers, April 18, 2005_

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

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### 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

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-staff-papers/issues/2016/12/31/imf-staff-papers-volume-52-no-17894_