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Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing

Bigsten, Arne - 1999

This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the …

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Interest Rate Liberalization : Some Lessons From Africa

Turtelboom, Bart - 1991

This paper undertakes a survey of theoretical considerations and an analysis of the experience of five African countries with interest rate liberalization. Despite substantial progress in monetary policy reforms, liberalization has only partially affected the level and variability of interest...

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The Impact of Public Education Expenditureon Human Capital, Growth, and Poverty in Tanzania and Zambia : A General Equilibrium Approach

Thorbecke, Erik - 2001

for two Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), Tanzania and Zambia. The simulation results suggest that education …

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Assessing bank competition within the East African Community

Sanya, Sarah; Gaertner, Matthew - 2012

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Identifying constraints to financial inclusion and their impact on GDP and inequality : a structural framework for policy

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ji, Yan; Townsend, Robert M.; Unsal, … - 2015

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Forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries : food and non-food inflation in Kenya

Andrle, Michal; Berg, Andrew; Morales, R. Armando; … - 2013

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Taylor visits Africa

Goncalves, Carlos Eduardo - 2015

de facto pursuing a strategy more akin to a Taylor Rule. Estimations of small-scale models for Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania … place in Kenya and Tanzania. In Uganda, these errors are much smaller, in fact similar in size to Taylor Rule deviations …

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Money targeting in a modern forecasting and policy analysis system : an application to Kenya

Andrle, Michal; Berg, Andrew; Berkes, Enrico; Morales, … - 2013

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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The monetary transmission mechanism in the tropics : a narrative approach

Berg, Andrew; Charry, Luisa; Portillo, Rafael; Vlček, Jan - 2013

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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Improving crop yields in Sub-Saharan Africa : what does the East African data say?

Thomas, Alun - 2020

Recent micro level data from East Africa is used to benchmark aggregate data and assess the role of agricultural inputs in explaining variation in crop yields on smallholding plots. Fertilizer, improved seeds, protection against erosion and pesticides improve crop yields in Rwanda and Ethiopia,...

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