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How Persistent are Climate-Related Price Shocks? Implications for Monetary Policy

Author/Editor: Alain N Kabundi, Montfort Mlachila, Jiaxiong Yao.

Release Date:October, 2022

Climate change is likely to lead to more frequent and more severe supply and demand shocks that will present a challenge to monetary policy formulation. The main objective of the paper is to more...



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Defying the Odds: Remittances During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author/Editor: Kangni R Kpodar, Montfort Mlachila, Saad N Quayyum, Vigninou Gammadigbe.

Release Date:July, 2021

This paper provides an early assessment of the dynamics and drivers of remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a newly compiled monthly remittance dataset for a sample of 52 countries, of more...



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The Impact of Conflict and Political Instability on Banking Crises in Developing Countries

Author/Editor: Ali Compaoré, Montfort Mlachila, Rasmané Ouedraogo, Sandrine Sourouema.

Release Date:February, 2020

While there is an extensive literature examining the economic impact of conflict and political instability, surprisingly there have been few studies on their impact on the probability of banking more...



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Struggling to Make the Grade: A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Weak Outcomes of South Africa's Education System

Author/Editor: Montfort Mlachila, Tlhalefang Moeletsi.

Release Date:March, 2019

While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational achievement by more...



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Regional Spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa : Exploring Different Channels

Author/Editor: Francisco Arizala, Matthieu Bellon, Margaux MacDonald, Montfort Mlachila, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:August, 2018

After close to two decades of strong economic activity, overall growth in sub-Saharan Africa decelerated markedly in 2015–16 as the largest economies experienced negative or flat growth. Regional more...



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Monetary Policy Credibility and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in South Africa

Author/Editor: Alain N Kabundi, Montfort Mlachila.

Release Date:July, 2018

This paper investigates the key factors that explain the documented decline in the exchange rate pass-through in South Africa over the past two decades, which coincides with the adoption of the more...



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Financial Resource Curse in Resource-Rich Countries

Author/Editor: Montfort Mlachila, Rasmané Ouedraogo.

Release Date:July, 2017

Why do commodity-dependent developing countries have typically lower levels of financial development than their peers? The literature has proposed many possible explanations, but it typically does more...



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Sub-Saharan African Migration : Patterns and Spillovers

Author/Editor: Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Ermal Hitaj, Montfort Mlachila, Arina Viseth, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:November, 2016

Amid rapid population growth, migration in sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing briskly over the last 20 years. Up to the 1990s, the stock of migrants—citizens of one country living in another more...



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Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa : Promoting Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

Author/Editor: Montfort Mlachila, Ahmat Jidoud, Monique Newiak, Bozena Radzewicz-Bak, Misa Takebe.

Release Date:September, 2016

Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa more...



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Unintended Consequences : Spillovers from Nigeria’s Fuel Pricing Policies to Its Neighbor

Author/Editor: Montfort Mlachila, Edgardo Ruggiero, David Corvino.

Release Date:February, 2016

This paper examines the constraints that negative externalities (i.e., smuggling from a large neighbor)
 impose on the application of automatic fuel price adjustment mechanisms. It is often more...



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