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This Selected Issues Paper and Statistical Appendix for Niger are discussed. The Nigerien economic outlook has been improving since 1999. After a long period of decline in per capita income, growth accelerated through 2007, attaining an annual average of 4 percent, or about 1 percent in per...
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This paper seeks to investigate the transmission mechanisms linking productivity to the real exchange rate in the … former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. At first glance, the stylized facts-low labor productivity growth and a trend real …
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We reassess exchange rate prediction using a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade. The performance of these models is compared against two reference specifications-purchasing power parity and the sticky-price monetary model. The models are estimated in first-difference...
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This paper employs newly constructed measures for productivity differentials, external imbalances, and commodity terms …-based real exchange rate and commodity terms of trade. The estimated impact of productivity growth differentials between traded …
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-related income, productivity and net foreign assets, but, at odds with the conventional wisdom, depreciates with higher government …
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We revisit the time-honored link between productivity and the real exchange rate. Consistent with the traditional view …, we find that higher labor productivity tends to lead to appreciation of the real exchange rate. Contrary to the … traditional view, however, we find that the positive productivity effect is transmitted through the real exchange rate based on …
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This paper examines the impact of productivity shocks on real exchange rate fluctuations in a dynamic international … statistically significant relationship exists between bilateral real exchange rates and international productivity differentials in …
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, highlighting the dichotomy between productivity-driven long-run growth and short-run deviations from the underlying growth …
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The empirical study shows that the equilibrium real exchange rate in Mauritius has been affected by the terms of trade, as well as by other fundamental determinants. It assesses the challenges posed to Mauritius’s trade performance by the expiration of the preferential trade arrangements....
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This paper provides three policy lessons to take full advantage of the opportunity afforded by EU funds. The main features of the global integrated monetary and fiscal (GIMF) model and how it was modified to account for income convergence are discussed. The impact of EU funds as exhibited in the...
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