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Assessing bank competition within the East African Community
Sanya, Sarah; Gaertner, Matthew - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488223
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282762
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726525
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445839
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667479
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667505
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251996
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Do interest rate controls work? : evidence from Kenya
Alper, C. Emre; Clements, Benedict J.; Hobdari, Niko; … - 2019
This paper reviews the impact of interest rate controls in Kenya, introduced in September 2016. The intent of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022041
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Monetary policy implementation and volatility transmission along the yield curve : the case of Kenya
Alper, C. Emre; Morales, R. Armando; Yang, Fan - 2016
instruments with longer maturities (e.g., T-bills) in Kenya since 2012, year in which the monetary policy framework switched to a …, Sweden, Thailand, and Uganda). Kenya shows strong volatility transmission and high persistence similar to other countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711565
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External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries : Lessons From their Experience
Ross, Kevin - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400423