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Concerns about the magnitude and length of exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices have increased in many … prices in Nigeria for the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q1. Utilizing the Johansen approach to cointegration and a vector error … discovered to be higher in import than in consumer prices, implying that the pass-through effect declines along the pricing chain …
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Concerns about the magnitude and length of exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices have increased in many … prices in Nigeria for the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q1. Utilizing the Johansen approach to cointegration and a vector error … discovered to be higher in import than in consumer prices, implying that the pass-through effect declines along the pricing chain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460225
Inflation appears to be the macro-problem in Ghana for which no antidote has been found under the economic recovery programme. It is possible that either a wrong diagnosis has been made of the problem, or that certain factors within the economy are preventing inflation from staying within target...
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production base of the economy with a positive bias for the production of agricultural exports. The foreign exchange reforms that … facilitated a cumulative depreciation of the effective exchange rate were expected to increase the domestic prices of agricultural … exports and therefore boost domestic production. …
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exports. The paper also finds sharp sub-regional differences: CFA economies’ agricultural exports are less diversified than … appear to shift relatively more rapidly from primary towards processed commodity exports. The study then investigates the …
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technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised … technology goods exports. Second, the internet also complements the mobile phone to boost technology service exports. Third …, positive marginal effects are apparent in the roles of educational quality and scientific output on technology goods exports …
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Growth in service exports has improved countries' per capita incomes, reduced over-reliance on goods exports, and … service exports. This paper examines the competitiveness of service exports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on the East … service exports is negligible. The expansion of services trade is constrained by various factors such as non-tariff barriers …
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technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised … technology goods exports. Second, the internet also complements the mobile phone to boost technology service exports. Third …, positive marginal effects are apparent in the roles of educational quality and scientific output on technology goods exports …
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that includes detailed information related to technology intensiveness of African countries exports, their revealed … African economies are not complex. Their exports are weakly diversified and weakly sophisticated. This could contribute to …
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The physical or absolute geography of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's location however not only determines its absolute geography, it also pins down its relative position on the globe vis-à-vis other countries. This paper assesses the...
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