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the Botswana authorities paid off with an impressive increase in the GDP per capita during the last three decades. However …
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Botswana. The output growth is expected to remain broadly unchanged in 2013 as strong nonmining sector growth would offset the …
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Botswana has committed to introduce the MTEF by 2016. The MTEF will provide a more explicit linkage between National …
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Botswana. The IMF report analyzes that large public employment significantly affect labor market outcomes in middle …-income countries, including Botswana. It is noted that reforms aimed at reducing the rents and the size of the public sector is likely … to significantly improve market outcomes in Botswana. As part of efforts to find new engines of growth and support …
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Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...
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Uruguay has consolidated economic gains, supported by strong macroeconomic policies and a broadly favorable external environment. Growth has exceeded expectations, unemployment has reached record lows, and poverty has continued to fall, while economic vulnerabilities have been significantly...
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The recent global financial crisis has exposed the limitations of a conventional inflation targeting framework in insulating an economy from all shocks, and demonstrated that its rigid application may aggravate the effect of shocks on output and inflation. Possible refinements to the inflation...
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Sound policies and favorable external conditions have led to a strong economic recovery, but important challenges lie ahead. Uruguay’s near-term economic prospects are generally favorable. The main short-term challenge is rising inflation in the wake of vigorous growth and capital...
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This paper presents the staff report for Peru’s 2008 Article IV Consultation, Fourth Review and Inflation Consultation under the Stand-By Arrangement and request for waiver of applicability of performance criteria. Peru has been liberalizing external trade through tariff reductions in...
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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and …
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