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Community-Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda-against the backdrop of recent financial sector reforms. Focusing on the behavior of …
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This paper analyses the dynamics of inflation in Kenya during 1974–96, a period characterized by external shocks and …
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forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries and apply it to Kenya. We use the model to run several policy … recover the sequence of domestic and foreign macroeconomic shocks that account for business cycle dynamics in Kenya over the …
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395982
This paper studies the implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya’s own trade regime and its external trading … environment. The analysis indicates that Kenya did not undertake significant liberalization commitments under the Uruguay Round …. There are however, several effects on Kenya’s external trading environment due to most-favored nation tariff cuts, erosion …
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in selected African countries. The countries considered are The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Sierra …
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The external debt burden of many low-income developing countries has increased significantly since the 1970s. Developments in a sample of ten countries show that the main factors behind the buildup of debt were (1) exogenous (adverse terms of trade shocks or weather), (2) a lack of sustained...
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in the analysis of monetary policy in low-income countries (LICs), with an application to Kenya. We provide a general … target misses in terms of structural shocks (aggregate demand, policy, shocks to money demand, etc). In the case of Kenya, we …
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policy that took place in 2011 in four members of the East African Community: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. We find …
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