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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output is projected to level off, and then decline...
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This Selected Issues paper for South Africa presents a quantitative analysis of inflation dynamics in the country. The conduct of monetary policy has been complicated by a variety of unanticipated events that have had important effects on inflation. Exposed to exchange rate and other shocks, the...
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inflation-unemployment process. The results provide some evidence in favor of the Lucas critique by showing that the short …-run unemployment-inflation trade-off tends to improve in countries that are successful in providing low and stable inflation. …
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relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes …, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of … inflation decreases: this implies a long-run trade-off also between the volatility of unemployment and that of wage inflation. …
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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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nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union …
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perception of risk by markets. We also find some weak evidence that IT countries did better on unemployment rates and advanced IT …
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Notwithstanding persistently-high unemployment following the Great Recession, inflation in the United States has been …
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unemployment—compared to the past. We examine another aspect that could explain this empirical finding, namely the demographic … Germany to confirm a weakening of monetary policy effectiveness over time with regards to unemployment and inflation. After …
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similar to that of the US both in terms of the shape and magnitude of the response. However, unemployment in the UK is less …
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