Staff Paper Vol 52 No 1 (March 2005) (Spiea2005001)

By IMF Staff

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 lastly, a discussion of the reasons for central bank intervention in ERM-I since 1993

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589064194
• ISBN13: 9781589064195
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: International Monetary Fund
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"