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The East African Community; Prospects for Sustained Growth

McAuliffe, Catherine; Saxena, Sweta Chaman; Yabara, Masafumi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

The East African Community (EAC) has been among the fastest growing regions in sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade or so. Nonetheless, the recent growth path will not be enough to achieve middle-income status and substantial poverty reduction by the end of the decadeâ€”the ambition of...

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Bangladesh; Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria, Activation of the Trade Integration Mechanism (TIM), and Augmentation of the Access Under the PRGF Arrangement in Accordance with the TIMâ€”-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

This paper discusses Bangladeshâ€™s Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria. Bangladeshâ€™s macroeconomic policies have been prudent. December 2003 quantitative targets and...

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El Salvador; Selected Issues: Background Notes

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This Selected Issues paper presents background notes on El Salvadorâ€™s economic growth, national savings, and implications of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA). The paper describes possible factors behind sluggish growth in El Salvador in recent...

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A Currency Union for the Caribbean

Worrell, DeLisle - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

The experiences of Caribbean Economic Community countries show that exchange rate depreciation in these countries is inflationary, and that, while changes in the relative prices of tradables may affect exports, tourism, and imports, nominal exchange rate changes have no predictable effect on...

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The End of Textiles Quotas; A Case Study of the Impacton Bangladesh

Mlachila, Montfort; Yang, Yongzheng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

potentially very vulnerable to this change in competitiveness. Based on assessments of quota restrictiveness and export similarity …

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Lesotho; Selected Issues And Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

The Selected Issues paper provides an overview of trends, performance export growth, value added, and employment …

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Ghana; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

This paper reviews trends in GDP and other macroeconomic variables since independence. It assesses the performance of the different sectors of the economy and expenditure categories. The paper identifies a number of products that could contribute to maintaining the high growth rate that...

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Africa's Oil Abundance and External Competitiveness; Do Institutions Matter?

Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

oil-exporting developing countries, and investigates reasons for systematic differences in the non-oil export performance …

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Rapid Current Account Adjustments; Are Microstates Different?

Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We describe unique aspects of microstates-they are less diversified, suffer from lumpiness of investment, they are geographically at the periphery and prone to natural disasters, and have less access to capital markets-that may make the current account more vulnerable, penalizing exports and...

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Is China's Export-Oriented Growth Sustainable?

Guo, Kai; N'Diaye, Papa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper assesses the sustainability of China's export-oriented growth over the medium to longer term. It shows that … maintaining the current export-oriented growth would require significant gains in market share through lower prices in a range of … composition of exports, diversifying the export base, and increasing domestic value added of exports could give room to further …

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