Author/Editor: Emre Alper, Benedict J Clements, Niko A Hobdari, Rafel Moyà Porcel.

Release Date:May, 2019

This paper reviews the impact of interest rate controls in Kenya, introduced in September 2016. The intent of the controls was to reduce the cost of borrowing, expand access to credit, and increase more...

Author/Editor: Niko A Hobdari, Vina Nguyen, Salvatore Dell'Erba, Edgardo Ruggiero.

Release Date:July, 2018

Fiscal decentralization is becoming a pressing issue in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting demands for a greater local voice in spending decisions and efforts to strengthen more...

Author/Editor: Emre Alper, Niko A Hobdari, Ali Uppal.

Release Date:December, 2016

This paper analyzes food inflation trends in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2000 to 2016 using two novel datasets of disaggregated CPI baskets. Average food inflation is higher, more volatile, and more...

Author/Editor: Roger Nord, Yuri Vladimirovich Sobolev, David G Dunn, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Niko Hobdari, Samar Maziad, Stéphane Roudet.

Release Date:February, 2009

This volume documents Tanzania’s remarkable turnaround from severe economic distress in 1985, and reviews the economic policies that twenty years later contributed to a successful reversal. more...

Author/Editor: Niko Hobdari.

Release Date:May, 2008

Tanzania's real effective exchange rate (REER) has depreciated sharply since end-2000, reversing the appreciation that took place in the second half of the 1990s. Single-country and panel data more...

Author/Editor: Niko Hobdari, Eric Le Borgne, Chonira Aturupane, Koba Gvenetadze, John Wakeman-Linn, Stephan Danninger.

Release Date:April, 2004

Oil and gas production in Azerbaijan were projected to increase sharply in 2005 and 2006, respectively, reaching peaks of 1.3 million barrels a day in 2009 and 20 billion cubic meters a year in 2010. more...