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REER imbalances and macroeconomic adjustments in the Proposed West African Monetary Union
Asongu, Simplice - In: The South African journal of economics 82 (2014) 2, pp. 276-289
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REER imbalances and macroeconomic adjustments : evidence from the CEMAC zone
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2019
The EMU crisis holds special lessons for existing monetary unions. We assess the behavior of real effective exchange rates (REERs) of members of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) zone with respect to their long-term equilibrium paths. A reduced form of the fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111601
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REER Imbalances and Macroeconomic Adjustments : Evidence From the CEMAC Zone
Asongu, Simplice - 2020
The EMU crisis holds special lessons for existing monetary unions. We assess the behavior of real effective exchange rates (REERs) of members of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) zone with respect to their long-term equilibrium paths. A reduced form of the fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847248
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Real Effective Exchange Rate Imbalances and Macroeconomic Adjustments : Evidence from the CEMAC Zone
Asongu, Simplice - 2014
We assess the behavior of real effective exchange rates (REERs) of members of the CEMAC zone with respect to their long-term equilibrium paths. A reduced form of the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) model is estimated and associated misalignments are derived for the period 1980 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043660
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REER Imbalances and Macroeconomic Adjustments in the Proposed West African Monetary Union
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
With the spectre of the Euro crisis hunting embryonic monetary unions, we use a dynamic model of a small open economy to analyze REERs imbalances and examine whether the movements in the aggregate real exchange rates are consistent with the underlying macroeconomic fundamentals in the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032550
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REER imbalances and macroeconomic adjustments : evidence from the CEMAC zone
Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - In: Foreign trade review : FTR ; quarterly journal of … 55 (2020) 3, pp. 372-381
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254358
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Covid-19 economic vulnerability and resilience indexes : global evidence
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph - 2020
The study complements the extant literature by constructing Covid-19 economic vulnerability and resilience indexes using a global sample of 150 countries which are categorized into four principal regions, namely: Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, America and Europe. Seven variables are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294987
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Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2017
We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638880
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The comparative exploration of mobile money services in inclusive development
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638884
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the new poor in Africa : the straw that broke the Camel's back
Diop, Samba; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This study assesses the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236692