Showing 1 - 7 of 7
Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country’s growth potential. The … public investment, financing, and growth in Liberia using an inter-temporal macroeconomic model. The model has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667478
This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a postconflict … countries and Liberia''s own experience with dollarization, we conclude that Liberia should not adopt full dollarization for the … economy''s vulnerability to external shocks and Liberia''s social fragility; (iii) banks in fully dollarized economies face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402977
''s financial flows, this paper discusses a radical simplification of Liberia''s current timber tax structure, including a proposal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404209
This paper analyzes the link between public investment, economic growth and debt sustainability in Sierra Leone using an inter-temporal macroeconomic model. In the model, public capital improves the productive capacity of private capital, generating positive medium and long term effects to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014275798
We use cross-section and time-series techniques to analyze pricing behavior in Sierra Leone. In cross-sectional data, we find that inflation volatility and product diversification are the main factors explaining differences in the frequency of price adjustments. We show that variance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400535
This paper discusses the main operational issues involved in the implementation of interbank foreign exchange systems in selected African countries. The countries considered are The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The paper finds that exchange rates in these markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396473
This paper examines the determinants of inflation in Sierra Leone using a structural vector autoregression (VAR) approach to help forecast inflation for operational purposes. Despite data limitations, the paper accurately models inflation in Sierra Leone. As economic theory predicts, domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401671