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This Technical Note focuses on strengthening of monetary and liquidity management in Nigeria. The Central Bank of … Nigeria (CBN) has robust institutional framework in place to design and implement monetary policy. The CBN has also sufficient …
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This study discusses the Philippine output gap from three perspectives and evaluates the utility of the approaches for policymaking. Incentives in the Philippines appear broadly comparable with those in neighboring countries. The reform would also improve short- and especially medium-term...
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This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
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, trade, and services. Inflation should continue to decline, in line with a tight monetary policy, and a lowering trend in …
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The overarching policy challenge facing Nigeria is to reduce widespread poverty and unemployment. Macroeconomic …
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KEY ISSUES Context. Nigeria has a large and diverse economy that has achieved a decade of strong growth, averaging 6 ….8 percent a year. However, Nigeria still lags peers in critical infrastructure and has high rates of poverty and income …, with inflation increasing to 11½ percent from the effects of exchange rate depreciation. These developments also increase …
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Several years of high inflation rates have negatively affected economic conditions in Angola. Macroeconomic …
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inflation. The authorities need to take steps to encourage foreign direct investment, to make good on their plans for …
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This paper discusses the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for Guinea. Agreement in principle was reached on the SMP from April 2005 to March 2006. The program would support the authorities’ efforts in restoring macroeconomic stability and establish a track record of policy implementation to...
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