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Beyond the Annual Averages: Impact of Seasonal Temperature on Employment Growth in US Counties
Nguyen, Ha - 2023
Using quarterly temperature and employment data between 1990 and 2021, this paper uncovers nuanced evidence on the impact of seasonal temperature within US counties: higher winter temperature increases private sector employment growth while higher summer temperature decreases it. The impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059377
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Empirical Investigation of the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Inflation in Tanzania.
Mwase, Nkunde - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MONEY, EXCHANGE RATES, AND INFLATION IN TANZANIA -- III. A SURVEY OF THE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012690980
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Tanzania's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate
Hobdari, Niko - 2008
Tanzania's real effective exchange rate (REER) has depreciated sharply since end-2000, reversing the appreciation that … approach, suggest that Tanzania's REER is currently modestly undervalued relative to its estimated equilibrium level. Looking … expected recovery in terms of trade. In addition, capital inflows to Tanzania could be significantly higher than cu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677457
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A Rule-Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania
Kim, Daehaeng - 2009
A zero net domestic financing (NDF) target has served Tanzania well in recent years, contributing to prudent …, may serve Tanzania better. The ""diamond rule"" proposed in this paper incorporates a permanent hard ceiling on debt and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677495
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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania
Bellon, Matthieu - 2020
fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … are most prevalent and which consumption-smoothing mechanisms are available. In Tanzania, agricultural shocks are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407884
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Creating Sustainable Fiscal Space for Infrastructure : The Case of Tanzania
Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2008
financing to meet Tanzania's infrastructure needs. It begins with a brief survey of the evidence on the relationship between … investment in Tanzania. The second part of the paper looks at five broad options for mobilizing additional resources to meet … Tanzania's infrastructure needs: (i) direct private investment and PPPs, (ii) expenditure reprioritization and efficiency, (iii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409074
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Evolution of debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries : some aggregate evidence
Baduel, Benedicte; Price, Robert W. - 2012
The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for low-income countries (LICs) is a standardized analytical tool to monitor debt sustainability. This paper uses DSAs from three periods around the time of the global economic crisis to analyze the projected trajectories of debt ratios for a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618505
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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries
McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012
The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618525
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Public investment, growth, and debt sustainability : putting together the pieces
Buffie, Edward E.; Berg, Andrew; Pattillo, Catherine A.; … - 2012
We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy reactions necessary to ensure debt-sustainability; and (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618586
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Financial intermediation costs in low-income countries : the role of regulatory, institutional, and macroeconomic factors
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2012
We analyze factors driving persistently higher financial intermediation costs in low-income countries (LICs) relative to emerging market (EMs) country comparators. Using the net interest margin as a proxy for financial intermediation costs at the bank level, we find that within LICs a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615784