Growth and Structural Reforms : A New Assessment /

This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, domestic financial reforms, and trade reforms, are robustly associated with economic growth, but only in...

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Hlavní autor: Christiansen, Lone Engbo
Další autoři: Schindler, Martin, Tressel, Thierry
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/284
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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