Access to credit is essential for the development and growth of firms. For a small open economy like Mauritius, the ability of firms to enter export markets is essential for their growth and development, given that the size of the local market is quite limited. To increase sales and...

This paper documents how China is crowding out India’s presence in the Mauritian economy by presenting a comparative analysis of Mauritius’ engagement with the Asian drivers in terms of trade, investment and aid. China has surpassed India to become Mauritius’ second most important import...

The main objective of this paper is to present a mapping of trade-relatedbottlenecks in the EAC/COMESA region to eligible aid-for-trade (AFT)categories, and to articulate a strategy for mobilising significant amounts of aidfor trade. To do so, the paper reviews the constraints to trade in...

The problem of inconsistency of of african data is not new. The determination of the nature and severity of this phenomenon, however, has become of much concern to interested observers. The appropriateness of this concern is reinforced by the need of African countries for timely and accurate...

For a developing country like Nigeria, the price of foreign exchange plays a highly significant role in the ability of the economy to attain optimal productive capacity. This paper, using a statistical analysis, studies the foreign exchange rate behaviour in Nigeria's auction.

This research attempts to evaluate the nature and extent of consistency of key macroeconomic data frequently used by reserachers and policy analysts across various data sources, bouth internal and external.

The objective of the paper is to propose a financial programming framework that uses the technique of targets and indicators to assist the monetary authority in conducting policy to achieve its macroeconomic goals.

In two earlier studies, we established that, to some extent, liberalization of the financial system does matter in Nigeria and that operators of the banking system, as suppliers of credit, believe in the efficacy of the liberalization effort in stimulating deposit and promoting competition...