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Purchasing Power Parities in Five East African Countries : Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
Krichene, Noureddine - 1998
In a case study of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, this paper finds that bilateral real exchange rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400715
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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 currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401749
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Structural Adjustment, Economic Performance, and Aid Dependency in Tanzania
Agrawal, Nisha - 1993
Tanzania’s adjustment program, which began in the mid-1980s, was accompanied by a sharp increase in the levels of … Tanzania, by adjusting the macroeconomic database to correct for data deficiencies in several important respects. A subsequent … comparison with other sub-Saharan African countries shows that, contrary to traditional interpretation, Tanzania’s increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398189
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The Macroeconomics of Medium-Term Aid Scaling-Up Scenarios
Portillo, Rafael - 2010
We develop a model to analyze the macroeconomic effects of a scaling-up of aid and assess the implications of different policy responses. The model features key structural characteristics of low-income countries, including varying degrees of public investment efficiency and a learning-by-doing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402924
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Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Mongardini, Joannes - 2009
This paper builds on the methodology developed by Chudik and Mongardini (2007) to estimate the relationship between grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques. The results indicate that grants and remittances are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403076
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Foreign Aid and Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in a Financially Constrained Dependent Economy
Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2008
A dynamic dependent-economy model is developed to investigate the role of the real exchange rate in determining the effects of foreign aid. If capital is perfectly mobile between sectors, untied aid has no longrun impact on the real exchange rate. A decline in the traded sector occurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401383
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid : The Case of Niger
Sacerdoti, Emilio - 2009
We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403185
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The Macroeconomic Challenges of Scaling Up Aid to Africa
Yang, Yongzheng - 2005
This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a checklist of issues that need to be considered when preparing a long term macroeconomic projection for a country involving the assumption of a significant increase in aid. Such scaling-up scenarios are...
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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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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