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In this article, we analyze extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries during the 1960-1996 period. Our main conclusion is that sustainable growth needs to be based on a balanced mix of capital accumulation, macroeconomic adjustment and structural...
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Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the statistical area is a complex matter. Many datasets are...
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). When Ghana and Uganda are importers, oil price shocks generate appreciation, mild inflation and interest rate reductions … case of Ghana and applying to Uganda as a prospective exporter. The paper proceeds in two steps. First, we construct a … Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model of a primary commodity exporting developing country calibrated to Ghana …
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This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit … between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error correction mechanism is stable in all specifications but in case of any … disequilibrium, only financial depth is significant in adjusting inflation to the long-run relationship. (3) In the long-run, short …
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past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We limit our sample to a panel of African countries for which inflation is non …) There are significant long-run equilibriums between inflation and each financial dynamic. (2) When there is a disequilibrium …, while only financial depth and financial size could be significantly used to exert deflationary pressures, inflation is …
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in absolute measures have positive elasticities of inflation; while (2) financial efficiency and size in relative … measures have negative elasticities of inflation. Social implications - This paper helps in providing monetary policy options …
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This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit … between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error correction mechanism is stable in all specifications but in case of any … disequilibrium, only financial depth is significant in adjusting inflation to the long-run relationship. (3) In the long-run, short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390825
in absolute measures have positive elasticities of inflation; while (2) financial efficiency and size in relative … measures have negative elasticities of inflation. Social implications - This paper helps in providing monetary policy options …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410073
past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We limit our sample to a panel of African countries for which inflation is non …) There are significant long-run equilibriums between inflation and each financial dynamic. (2) When there is a disequilibrium …, while only financial depth and financial size could be significantly used to exert deflationary pressures, inflation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410228
This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit … between inflation and the fundamentals. (2) The error correction mechanism is stable in all specifications but in case of any … disequilibrium, only financial depth is significant in adjusting inflation to the long-run relationship. (3) In the long-run, short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032566