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A three-person committee assembled by the WTO to hear evidence in disputes between members, as part of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. Panels are also used to settle disputes under NAFTA.
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A constant that helps to determine the shape and position of a functional relationship, such as an exponent in a Cobb-Douglas function or the marginal propensity to import in a linear import function.
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A group of 19 creditor countries that meets regularly but informally in Paris to seek ways of helping debtor countries to manage their debts through coordinated rescheduling and other means.
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1. Equality. Same as par. See also interest parity and purchasing power parity. 2. Official value, or par value.
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1. To maintain a pegged exchange rate; thus to set a currency's value within a narrow range. 2. The par value of a pegged exchange rate. 3. The regime of a pegged exchange rate.
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A regime in which the government or central bank announces an official (par value) of its currency and then maintains the actual market rate within a narrow band above and below that by means of exchange market intervention.
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A one percent increment. For example, a two percentage point increase in a growth rate that was previously 5% would be an increase to 7% (which might alternatively be correctly, though less commonly, called a 40% increase in the growth rate, since 7 is 40% higher than 5).
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1. The absence of any barriers to international capital movements. 2. The requirement that, in equilibrium, rates of return on capital (interest rates) must be the same in different countries.
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