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development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …
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Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the commonly used dummy variable or moving average deviation methods to estimate the seasonal gap...
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metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in …
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-depth studies in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania between 2010 and 2012. The paper shows that the share of SME …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
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sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock …
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. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the …
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Infrastructure made a net contribution of just over two percentage points to Botswana's improved per capita growth … boost annual growth by about 1.2 percentage points. Botswana has made significant infrastructure progress in recent years … and load shedding. Botswana's international transport connections and Internet connectivity also lag behind those of …
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This paper analyzes Botswana's medium-term fiscal sustainability in view of the expected depletion of diamonds in the … future. The analysis shows that in the absence of policy adjustments, Botswana's current fiscal policy strategy is … unsustainable over the longer term, which could endanger macroeconomic stability and Botswana's reputation as Africa's success story …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976285
This paper investigates the dynamics between the exchange rate and consumer price inflation in Zambia. The analysis …
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