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Commodity prices and exchange rate volatility : lessons from South Africa’s capital account liberalization
Arezki, Rabah; Dumitrescu, Elena-Ivona; Freytag, Andreas; … - 2012
We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980-2010. Our main findings is that prior to capital account liberalization the causality runs from South African Rand to gold price volatility but the causality runs the other way...
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Dynamic Gains From Trade : Evidence From South Africa
Subramanian, Arvind - 2000
trade and TFP growth both over time and across sectors …
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The Composition of Capital Flows : Is South Africa Different?
Funke, Norbert - 2005
Over the past decade, South Africa has attracted relatively little foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable amounts of portfolio inflows. In this context, the objective of the paper is twofold: to identify the determinants of the level and composition of capital flows to emerging...
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What Does South Africa's Pattern of Trade Say About its Labor Markets?
Subramanian, Arvind - 2001
This paper examines the factor intensity of South Africa''s trade. The conclusion is that South Africa is revealed though its trade pattern to be capital abundant (relative to labor). Surprisingly, this result holds especially for South Africa''s trade with its high income partners, which should...
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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
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New indicators for tracking growth in real time
Matheson, Troy - 2011
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The global financial crisis : an anatomy of global growth
Matheson, Troy - 2013
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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect
Bruckner, Markus - 2010
overall effect on GDP per capita growth. The paper''s findings are consistent with theoretical models of the current account …
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Kazimov, Kazim - 2011
macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are …. Third, we find that in the long run resource windfalls have negative effects on non-resource sector GDP growth. Yet, the … windfalls on macroeconomic stability and economic growth are moderated by the quality of political institutions …
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram - 2005
We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid … evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no …: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our …
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