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Resetting the International Monetary (Non)SystemThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. International financial crises...
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Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
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FDI, Employment, and Growth in China and IndiaThe project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China's growth on smaller economies and the rest of the...
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The Main Obstacles to Firms’ Growth in SenegalProductivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms’ accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to...
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The Return to Foreign AidPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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Fiscal Reforms and the Fiscal Effects of Aid in UgandaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ethiopia: Evidence from CVAR ApplicationsPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues?Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters: The Cases of Morocco and TunisiaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
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Scoping Paper on Industry in SenegalSenegal is a typical sub-Saharan economy, which conducted an import substitution policy over 1960-86, followed by a policy of support for the private sector and liberalization of the economy. It suffers from a low level of economic development...
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Africa’s Recovery from the Global Economic CrisisAugustin Fosu and Wim Naudé African economies have been shaken by the global economic downturn which followed the US-centered financial crisis of 2008...
Policy Brief
What Can the European Central Bank Learn from Africa?The 14-member Franc Zone in West and Central Africa represents the largest monetary union in the southern hemisphere, predating the European Monetary Union by decades. With monetary unions planned for other parts of Africa in the near future...
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Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South AfricaPost-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This paper aims to...
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Growth of African EconomiesRecent evidence from an exhaustive political-economy study of growth of African economies—the Growth Project of the African Economic Research Consortium—suggests that ‘policy syndromes’ have substantially contributed to the generally poor growth in...