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Economic outcomes in Jamaica have fallen short of the authorities’ objectives in recent years. As the government looks to reinvigorate its growth and debt reduction strategy, it is instructive to examine how exogenous shocks and other unanticipated developments can affect economic...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes the underlying sources of growth in Uganda, suggesting that the contribution to growth from total factor productivity has been minor, while the high population growth poses a significant challenge to sustain a rapid improvement in living standards. The paper...
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This Selected Issues paper examines the sources of real growth in Guinea. It identifies and quantifies the impact on real GDP growth of both the exogenous shocks and the policy changes that have occurred since 2000. The paper offers, first, some empirical evidence on real GDP growth in Guinea...
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This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic growth in Ghana continued at a robust pace of 8 percent in …
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has created significant challenges for Ghana. A swift return to macroeconomic stability in 2013 was thwarted by weaker …
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This paper presents Ghana's 2023 Article IV Consultation, First Review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement … under the Extended Credit Facility, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review. Ghana …
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country priorities in view of Ghana's climate challenges and identified key indicators for development under the Environment … climate change related statistics for Ghana, ongoing capacity development initiatives with other agencies, policy needs and … indicators. Participating agencies included the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environment …
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This paper highlights Ghana's Request for an Arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The authorities …
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slowdown in growth, is putting Ghana's medium-term prospects at risk. The Government's efforts to achieve fiscal consolidation …, anchored on their second Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA II), aims at a sizeable and frontloaded fiscal …
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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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