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Inflation Pressures and Monetary Policy Options in Emerging and Developing Countries-A Cross Regional Perspective

Ötker, Inci - 2009

This paper analyzes the monetary policy response to rising inflation in emerging and developing countries associated … with the food and oil price shocks in 2007 and the first half of 2008. It reviews inflation developments in a sample of … of inflation; provides a synthesis of policy responses taken against the background of the conflicting objectives and …

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Inflation and Monetary Policy in a Low-Income and Fragile State: The Case of Guinea

Carrière-Swallow, Yan - 2023

Inflation in low-income countries is often high and volatile, driven by external shocks. In addition, inflation in … stability. We estimate the drivers of inflation in Guinea since the early 2000s, a period in which the country suffered major … shocks from pandemics, commodity price movements, and multiple military coups, and during which inflation averaged 12 percent …

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Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa

Salinas, Gonzalo - 2008

The growth literature has had problems explaining the ""sub-Saharan African growth dummy"" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate...

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Financial Integration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union.

Sy, Amadou N. R. - 2006

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What is Fuzzy About Clustering in West Africa?.

Tsangarides, Charalambos G - 2006

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FEER for the CFA Franc.

Tsangarides, Charalambos G - 2006

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Monetary Union in West Africa; An Agency of Restraint for Fiscal Policies

Pattillo, Catherine A.; Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

Could a West African monetary union (either of the non-CFA countries, or all ECOWAS members) be an effective "agency of restraint" on fiscal policies? We discuss how monetary union could affect fiscal discipline and the arguments for explicit fiscal restraints considered in the European Monetary...

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What is Fuzzy About Clustering in West Africa?

Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed; Tsangarides, Charalambos G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Applying techniques of clustering analysis to a set of variables suggested by the convergence criteria and the theory of optimal currency areas, this paper looks for country homogeneities to assess membership in the existing and proposed monetary unions of the broader west African region. Our...

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Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa

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

The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605430

Monetary Union in West Africa; Who Might Gain, Who Might Lose, and Why?

Masson, Paul R.; Debrun, Xavier; Pattillo, Catherine A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

ECOWAS monetary unions. We conclude that monetary union with Nigeria would not be in the interests of other ECOWAS countries …, unless it were accompanied by effective discipline over Nigeria's fiscal policies. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825633