Among the factors that determine countries' macroeconomic performance and outlook, climate change has, since the 1990s, progressively gained significant prominence in national and global public policy discussions, and consequently also in macroeconomic policy analysis. This paper discusses the...

Among the factors that determine countries' macroeconomic performance and outlook, climate change has, since the 1990s, progressively gained significant prominence in national and global public policy discussions, and consequently also in macroeconomic policy analysis. This paper discusses the...

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

The authors quantify the impact on Cameroon of three aspects of its new regional trade agreement with the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (the CEMAC agreement): i) improved access to markets in CEMAC; ii) preferential tariff reduction; and iii) reduction of its external tariff...