Essays about: "international monetary"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 72 essays containing the words international monetary.

  1. 16. Banking the unbanked: Financial inclusion and economic sustainable development for women? : Decolonial perspectives on the gendered migration-remittances-development nexus

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Heidi Källoff; [2020]
    Keywords : Remittances; the global remittance trend; financial inclusion; economic democratization; sustainable development; austerity; gender mainstreaming; migration management; transnational business feminism; decoloniality; decolonialism;

    Abstract : Over the last decade, a new trend of Global Remittances has emerged within the international development community, especially a growing interest in women’s migration and remittances, and their potential for poverty reduction and economic growth. Due to the staggering amount of transnational money transfers, migrant remittances have become a central component in multilateral discussions on alternative development financing, and has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). READ MORE

  2. 17. Have Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers actually reduced poverty in poor countries?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Markus Bohlers; [2019-11-07]
    Keywords : Poverty; PRSPs; poor countries; IFIs; development paradigm; Washington Consensus;

    Abstract : Throughout the past 15-20 years, poor countries have been implementing so-called Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) under the guidance of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Despite their enormous importance for national development efforts around the globe, the aggregate performance of PRSPs remains understudied. READ MORE

  3. 18. The Riksbank and International Interest Rate Dynamics

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Stefan Lindborg; [2019-10-21]
    Keywords : Interest rate; International Dynamics; Capital Flows; Small Open Econimics; DSGE; Riksbank; Sweden;

    Abstract : Based on the case of Sweden, this thesis studies the relationship between the nominal interest rate in a small open economy and the interest rates of the country's trading partners. Cross-country interest rate differentials affect domestic economic conditions through two channels; the exchange rate channel and via capital flows. READ MORE

  4. 19. A CURRENCY UNION’S EFFECT ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE - EMU membership effect on international trade for Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : John Elveljung; Stina Oad; [2019-02-15]
    Keywords : Common currency areas; Currency union; Optimal Currency Area; EMU; EU; Export; Gravity Model; International rate;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates if there is an increase in international trade from joining a currency union. This is done by looking at the European Monetary Union with a focus on four countries that became members in 2007-2009: Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia. READ MORE

  5. 20. One Rate to Rule Them All: How U.S. Monetary Policy is Increasingly Controlling European Economies

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Lina Thomas; [2019]
    Keywords : Global VAR; Monetary Policy Spillovers; International Transmission Mechanisms;

    Abstract : When the Fed raises the interest rates, it does so to steer domestic activity. However, the effects of such monetary policy may inadvertently spillover to other economies. This study employs the Global VAR approach to examine such spillover effects to European economies before and after the crisis. READ MORE