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Kareem Ismail

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

700 19th Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20431

United States

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Scholarly Papers (6)

1.

The Structural Manifestation of the 'Dutch Disease’: The Case of Oil Exporting Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 10/103
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Apr 2010
Kareem Ismail
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Capital, Cross country analysis, Economic models, External shocks, Industrial sector, International trade, Labor costs, Manufacturing sector, Oil exporting countries, Oil prices, Price increases, Production, Resource allocation

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Boom-Bust Cycle, Asymmetrical Fiscal Response and the Dutch Disease

IMF Working Paper No. 10/94
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Apr 2010
Rabah Arezki and Kareem Ismail
Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Business cycles, Commodity price fluctuations, Economic models, Fiscal policy, Government expenditures, International trade, Natural resources, Oil exports, Oil producing countries, Political economy, Real effective exchange rates, Revenue mobilization

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Optimism Bias in Growth Forecasts-The Role of Planned Policy Adjustments

IMF Working Paper No. 20/229
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Jan 2021
Kareem Ismail, Roberto Perrelli and Jessie Yang
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Financial Depth in the WAEMU: Benchmarking Against Frontier SSA Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 13/161
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Jul 2013
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bank of England and Bank of Central African States
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Financial sector, West African Economic and Monetary Union, Sub-Saharan Africa, Nonoil developing countries, Cross country analysis, Economic models, Financial development, Financial possibility frontier, Benchmarking, WAEMU, financial sector, monetary fund, inflation, financial services, financial sector development, monetary union, financial intermediation, financial reforms, financial system, financial sector performance, financial systems, financial markets, liquid liabilities, government securities market, crowding out, interest rate controls, financial institutions, financial policies, stock markets, money supply, government securities, international financial statistics, financial lib

Financial Depth in the WAEMU: Benchmarking Against Frontier SSA Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 13/161 (2013)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Bank of England and Bank of Central African States
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Financial development, Financial possibility frontier, Benchmarking, WAEMU

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The Role of a Stabilizing Expenditure Rule in Fostering Macro-Fiscal Stability

IMF Working Paper No. 2025/238
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Nov 2025
Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Ministry of Finance, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Government of the Republic of Poland - Ministry of Finance of Poland, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Government of the Republic of Poland - Ministry of Finance of Poland and Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
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Fiscal Rules, Debt Sustainability, Stabilizing Expenditure Rule, Poland, Econometric Model

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Wage Dynamics in Europe

IMF Working Paper No. 2026/120
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 21 Jun 2026
Kareem Ismail, Ana Lariau and Théodore Renault
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Wage Phillips curve, inflation pass-through, collective bargaining, indexation, minimum wages, public sector wages, Europe