Enhancing Financial Sector Surveillance in Low-Income Countries : Background Paper.

This note provides an overview of the literature on the challenges posed by shallow financial systems for macroeconomic policy implementation. Countries with shallow markets are more likely to choose fixed exchange rates, less likely to use indirect measures as instruments of monetary policy, and to...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:Policy Papers; Policy Paper ; No. 2012/025
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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