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IMF International Financial Statistics

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Kind international trade or finance data
Producer International Monetary Fund
Coverage 1960-2005
Works using it 8

Debates

Debate Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 4
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bell (1995) IMF, International Financial Statistics (Brazil investment ratios; import/GDP and export/GDP ratios, Yearbook 1992 pp 136-139) 1980s-1990 Brazil's investment fall after its debt crisis, and trade/GDP ratios for Figures 2a and 2b comparing South Africa with other developing countries.
De Klerk (1990) International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics (1977-1988) and Supplement on Price Statistics (1986) 1970s-1980s World maize, wool and manufactured-goods prices used to build the international terms of trade columns of Table 3.
Kirsten et al. (2007) IMF International Financial Statistics world commodity prices 1960-2005 World prices for grains, mutton, sugar, US HRW wheat, yellow maize (US No.2 Gulf), Argentine beef and UK sunflower oil used as border prices.
McCarthy (1988) Import coefficients (imports/GDP) for South Africa for five-year periods 1920-24 to 1980-84, and IMF International Financial Statistics Yearbook 1986 for Latin American comparators 1920-1984 Shows South Africa's import propensity did not decline, so import substitution in the ratio sense did not occur, and compares it with Latin America.
Mohamed and Finnoff (2004) International Financial Statistics (IFS) – external debt data 1980-2000 Provides the change in the stock of external debt, one component of the residual capital flight equation.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) Table 1 sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; UN, Commodity Trade Statistics; UK Overseas Trade Statistics; South African Monthly Abstract of Trade Statistics 1984 Builds Table 1 on South African exports of food/agricultural products, iron and steel, and coal by destination, to size the exposure to trade sanctions.
Rustomjee (1991) IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS) Yearbooks, various years 1970-1988 1970-1988 Supplies recorded capital flows and the Errors and Omissions item, FOB/CIF ratios and the CPI deflator used to build recorded versus unrecorded flows.
Teoh et al. (1999) IMF International Financial Statistics 1979-92 1979-1992 Background macro series (real GDP, openness, balance of payments, terms of trade, JSE indices, exchange rates) in figures 3-6.