In economics, ideas rarely fail because they are wrong. More often, they fail because they are badly introduced, poorly structured, or concluded without conviction. Anyone who has sat through a policy ...

This technical assistance report documents the key phases of the scoping mission for the development of a macroeconomic model based on financial programming, conducted in Libreville from May 5 to 15, ...

Eurozone Retail Sales, a key measure of consumer spending, surprisingly falls by 0.1% month-on-month (MoM) in January, while it was expected to grow 0.3%. In December, the consumer spending measure ...

In much of the developing world big firms are rare. The typical firm consists of a single worker—the owner. Even among those ...

This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

This paper empirically evaluates the ability of current Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze macrofinancial coverage in IMF Article IV staff reports, using human economists' assessments as a ...

The EUR/JPY pair trades 0.15% down to near 182.40 during the Asian trading session on Monday. The cross has come under pressure as the safe-haven appeal of the Japanese Yen (JPY) has improved in a ...

Introduction Individuals experiencing moderate to severe mental illness have low rates of workforce inclusion, with a consequence of high welfare dependency, affecting both societal costs and health.

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This calculation can be used for hypothesis testing in statistics Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive ...

Tutorials on real-time analysis and forecasting for outbreak analytics with R developed by the Epiverse-TRACE initiative. These tutorials are visible at: https ...