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This 2003 Article IV Consultation highlights that the South African economy performed well in 2002, notwithstanding difficult global economic conditions. Supported by sound macroeconomic management and a highly competitive exchange rate, real GDP growth rose to 3.0 percent in 2002 from 2.8...
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adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union … credibility, and that a positive inflation target, as opposed to zero inflation, leads to higher and less volatile output. These … countries supports country-specific flexible inflation targeting. …
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This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that macroeconomic results for Romania were not as strong in 2005 compared with 2004 on account of both internal and external factors. Growth slowed to 4.1 percent in 2005, with agricultural output falling as a result of floods, and industrial output...
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This Selected Issues paper describes the monetary transmission mechanism in Sierra Leone. The paper uses a vector autoregression model to explore the links between policy changes by The Bank of Sierra Leone and real variables, such as output and prices. The paper describes Sierra Leone’s...
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Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...
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analyze the inflation outlook and monetary policy challenges. The Bank of Indonesia (BI) introduced its Inflation Targeting … Framework in July 2005 with the goal to reduce inflation in the medium term to 3 percent. BI’s official mandate is stability … of the rupiah, both internal and external, and BI views the inflation targeting regime with a floating exchange rate as …
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This paper presents a simple structural model of inflation adapted for Nigeria based on the methodology of Berg, Karam …
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model embodies the key principle that, in an inflation-targeting framework, the role of monetary policy is to provide an … anchor for inflation and inflation expectations. The development and calibration of this model is an ongoing process. …
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the inflation tax. Accordingly, continued effort is likely to be needed to attain a fiscal position that is sustainable …
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The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT …
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