The volatility in international oil prices has important implications for policies that determine national retail prices of petroleum products. This paper addresses a number of issues regarding petroleum product pricing in Western Africa emphasizing international spillovers that may limit the...

This paper addresses a number of issues regarding petroleum product pricing in Western Africaemphasizing international spillovers. We use panel unit root rests and long-run modeling based on vector error correction models to assess links and convergence in petroleum product prices across...

En el Paraguay el mercado de seguros está todavía insuficientemente desarrollado, pese a la proliferación de compañías en especial a partir de la década del 90, coincidiendo con la desregulación del sistema financiero. Este mercado ha estado hasta febrero de 1996 regido por una Ley de...

En el Paraguay el mercado de seguros está todavía insuficientemente desarrollado, pese a la proliferación de compañías en especial a partir de la década del 90, coincidiendo con la desregulación del sistema financiero. Este mercado ha estado hasta febrero de 1996 regido por una Ley de...

A model in which monetary policy pursues full-fledged inflation targeting adapts well to Ghana. Model features include: endogenous policy credibility; non-linearities in the inflation process; and a policy loss function that aims to minimize the variability of output and the interest rate, as...

This paper identifies the factors linked to cross-country differentials in growth performance in the aftermath of social conflict for 30 sub-Saharan African countries using panel data techniques. Our results show that changes in the terms of trade are the most important correlate of economic...

This paper presents an analysis of the public investment scaling-up strategy for Togo using a dynamic macroeconomic model that explicitly analyzes the links between public investment, economic growth, and debt sustainability. In the model, public capital is productive and complementary to...

The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa remains a long-term development challenge for the region. Nearly 12 million African children have been orphaned as a result of the disease, and 22.5 million people in Africa 61 percent of them women live with HIV. The hyperepidemics in Southern Africa...

The paper combines state-level fiscal data with household survey data to assess the links between sub-national fiscal policy and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the sub-national level is not associated with a...

In this paper we attempt to analyse whether price-based controls on capital inflows are successful in insulating economies against external shocks. We present results from vector autoregressive (VAR) models, which indicate that Chile and Colombia, countries that adopted controls on capital...