Francesco Goletti, Raisuddin Ahmed, Naser Farid
Mansor H. Ibrahim
The present paper analyzes the effects of monetary policy shocks on aggregate and eight sectoral outputs for Malaysia using vector autoregressive models. In line with many existing studies on Malaysia, the results are supportive of the real effects of monetary policy shocks. More importantly, we fin...
Paul A. Dorosh
Van Bon Nguyen
A sustained high growth rate of gross domestic product at a low inflation is one of the main goals of the majority of macroeconomic policies, so keeping the price stability plays an important role in determining the growth rate of output. This paper empirically investigates effects of fiscal deficit...
Bernard Hoekman
No AccessPolicy Research Working Papers21 Jun 2013Tentative First Steps: An Assessment of the Uruguay Round Agreement on ServicesAuthors/Editors: Bernard HoekmanBernard Hoekmanhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-1455SectionsAboutPDF (3.2 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations Share...
Ali Farazmand
Preface Introduction: Administrative Reform and Development by Ali Farazmand Administrative Reform in Asia Innovation for Administrative Reforms in Korea: A Case of Local Autonomy System by Jong-Hae Yoo Administrative Reforms in India by Krishna Tummala Toward Good Governance in Bangladesh: External...
Shelagh A. Hefferman
An error correction model is used to capture the dynamics of British retail deposit and loan rate responses to changes in the central bank’s base rate. The test is conducted using a monthly series of interest rates for four generic retail banking products over the period 1986–93. The adjustment proc...
Md. Lutfur Rahman, Jashim Uddin
In this paper we have investigated the interactions between stock prices and exchange rates in three emerging countries of South Asia named as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. We have considered average monthly nominal exchange rates of US dollar in terms of Bangladeshi Taka, Indian Rupee and Pakista...
Jim Love, Ramesh Chandra
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the export‐led growth hypothesis for South Asia, a diverse region consisting of one large country, India, surrounded by a number of medium and small countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. Design/methodology/approach...
Dilip Dutta, Nasiruddin Ahmed
This paper investigates the existence of a long-run aggregate merchandise import demand function for Bangladesh during the period 1974 - 94. The cointegration and error correction modelling approaches have been applied. Empirical results suggest that there exists a unique long-run or equilibrium rel...
Faisal Z. Ahmed, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Audrey Sacks
Ishtehar Sharif Swazan, Debanjan Das
Bangladesh is the second-largest ready-made garment (RMG) manufacturer and exporter in the world. The RMG industry of Bangladesh has become one of the fastest-growing industries globally since the 1990s and is the main source of its foreign earnings for the last three decades. To gain an in-depth un...
Rashid Latief, Lin Lefen
The “One Belt and One Road” (OBOR) project was started by the Chinese government with the aim of achieving sustainable economic development and increasing cooperation with other countries. This project has five major objectives, which include (i) increasing trade flow, (ii) encouraging policy coordi...
L. Alan Winters, Thomas W. Hertel
This study reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreem...
Aradhna Aggarwal