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The Mystery of Missing Real Spillovers in Southern Africa : Some Facts and Possible Explanations
Author/Editor: Olivier Basdevant, Andrew W Jonelis, Borislava Mircheva, Slavi T. Slavov. Release Date: June, 2014 Price: $20.00Anecdotal evidence suggests that the economies of South Africa and its neighbors (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe) are tightly integrated with each other. There are more... |
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Managing Income Tax Compliance through Self-Assessment
Author/Editor: Andrew Okello. Release Date: March, 2014 Price: $18.00Modern tax administrations seek to optimize tax collections while minimizing administration costs and taxpayer compliance costs. Experience shows that voluntary compliance is best achieved through a more... |
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Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique
Author/Editor: Giovanni Melina, Yi Xiong. Release Date: December, 2013 Price: $18.00Mozambique has great potential in natural gas reserves and if liquefied/commercialized the sum of taxes andother fiscal revenue from natural gas will, at its peak, reach roughly one third of total more... |
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Africa's Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
Author/Editor: Paulo Drummond, Estelle X Liu. Release Date: December, 2013 Price: $18.00The rapid growth in China’s domestic investment in recent decades has generated a large appetite for global goods, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of more... |
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Money Targeting in a Modern Forecasting and Policy Analysis System: an Application to Kenya
Author/Editor: Michal Andrle, Andrew Berg, Enrico Berkes, Rafael A Portillo, Jan Vlcek, R Armando Morales. Release Date: November, 2013 Price: $18.00We extend the framework in Andrle and others (2013) to incorporate an explicit role for money targets and target misses in the analysis of monetary policy in low-income countries (LICs), with an more... |
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Drivers of Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Author/Editor: Manuk Ghazanchyan, Janet Gale Stotsky. Release Date: November, 2013 Price: $18.00This study examines the drivers of growth in Sub-Saharan African countries, using aggregate data, from the past decade. We correlate recent growth experience to key determinants of growth, including more... |
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Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies: An Application to Angola
Author/Editor: Christine J Richmond, Irene Yackovlev, Shu-Chun S Yang. Release Date: June, 2013 Price: $18.00Natural resource revenues are an increasingly important financing source for public investment in many developing economies. Investing volatile resource revenues, however, may subject an economy to more... |
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Fiscal Sustainability, Public Investment, and Growth in Natural Resource-Rich, Low-Income Countries : The Case of Cameroon
Author/Editor: Issouf Samaké, Priscilla S Muthoora, Bruno Versailles. Release Date: June, 2013 Price: $18.00This paper assesses the implications of the use of oil revenue for public investment on growth and fiscal sustainability in Cameroon. We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to more... |
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Forecasting and Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries: Food and non-Food Inflation in Kenya
Author/Editor: Michal Andrle, Andrew Berg, R Armando Morales, Rafael Portillo, Jan Vlcek. Release Date: March, 2013 Price: $18.00We develop a semi-structural new-Keynesian open-economy model, with separate food and non-food inflation dynamics, for forecasting and monetary policy analysis in low-income countries and apply it to more... |
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The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author/Editor: Marcelo Martinez, Montfort Mlachila. Release Date: February, 2013 Price: $18.00The paper explores the quality of the recent high-growth episode in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the following two questions: (i) what has been the nature and pattern of SSA growth over the past more... |
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The East African Community: Prospects for Sustained Growth
Author/Editor: Catherine McAuliffe, Sweta Chaman Saxena, Masafumi Yabara. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00The East African Community (EAC) has been among the fastest growing regions in sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade or so. Nonetheless, the recent growth path will not be enough to achieve more... |
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Seychelles: Fifth Review Under the Extended Arrangement, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review - Staff Report; Press Release on the completion of the Review.
Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Taxation and Development - Again
Author/Editor: Michael Keen. Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years. This paper reflects on three broad lessons of more... |
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Islamic Republic of Mauritania : Selected Issues Paper
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00Despite a relatively high GDP growth rate over the past decade (2000–10), economic growth in Mauritania has not been able to make a significant dent in poverty. Rapid and sustained poverty more... |
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South Africa
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $5.00In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff more... |
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South Africa : 2012 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report Informational Annex Debt Sustainability Analysis Staff Statement Public Information Notice
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00The Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation states that the policy pursued by South Africa has resulted in domestic and external stability, despite prevailing adverse circumstances. Given more... |
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Cameroon: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation : Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $20.00Despite achieving macroeconomic stability, there is not much improvement in Cameroon's social indicators. To achieve higher and more inclusive growth, the report mentioned that problems in sectors more... |
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Botswana: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Botswana: Selected Issues
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Burundi: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II
Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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