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The Level of Productivity in Traded and Non-Traded Sectors for a Large Panel of Countries

By: Rui Mano,Marola Castillo

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The Level of Productivity in Traded and Non-Traded Sectors for a Large Panel of Countries

By: Rui Mano,Marola Castillo

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker in constant 2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) U.S. dollars. To construct these series, we collect industry-level data from several sources, and classify individual industries as traded/non-traded using their ratio of exports to value added. Finally, we aggregate the industry data up to a traded sector and a non-traded sector, accordingly. This new dataset has two main advantages relative to existing datasets: (i) it defines more finely the traded/non-traded sectors, by drawing on much more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across countries/sectors because sectoral productivity is adjusted by its own price level.

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The External Balance Assessment (EBA) Methodology

By: Mr.Steven Phillips,Mr.Luis Catão,Mr.Luca Antonio Ricci,Mr.Rudolfs Bems,Ms.Mitali Das,Mr.Julian Di Giovanni,Ms.Filiz Unsal,Marola Castillo,Jungjin Lee,Jair Rodriguez,Mr.Mauricio Vargas

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The External Balance Assessment (EBA) Methodology

By: Mr.Steven Phillips,Mr.Luis Catão,Mr.Luca Antonio Ricci,Mr.Rudolfs Bems,Ms.Mitali Das,Mr.Julian Di Giovanni,Ms.Filiz Unsal,Marola Castillo,Jungjin Lee,Jair Rodriguez,Mr.Mauricio Vargas

The External Balance Assessment (EBA) methodology has been developed by the IMF’s Research Department as a successor to the CGER methodology for assessing current accounts and exchange rates in a multilaterally consistent manner. Compared to other approaches, EBA emphasizes distinguishing between the positive empirical analysis and the normative assessment of current accounts and exchange rates, and highlights the roles of policies and policy distortions. This paper provides a comprehensive description and discussion of the 2013 version (“2.0”) of the EBA methodology, including areas for its further development.

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