Author/Editor: Mark Lewis, Aurelie Martin, Gabriel Di Bella.

Release Date:August, 2007

Assessing a country's competitiveness routinely starts with an analysis of the real exchange rate. However, in low-income countries, empirical analysis of the real exchange rate is often subject to more...

Author/Editor: Mark Lewis, Jean-Claude Nachega, Said Bakhache, Kadima D Kalonji.

Release Date:December, 2006

This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the more...

Author/Editor: Helaway Tadesse, Mark Lewis, Jörg Zeuner, James John, Luzmaria Monasi, Paolo Dudine.

Release Date:July, 2006

This paper examines the impact of the 2003-05 oil price increase on the balance of payments positions and IMF financing needs of low-income country oil importers. It finds that stronger exports more...

Author/Editor: Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, Mark Lewis.

Release Date:May, 2002

The paper examines the recent privatization experience in Ukraine in the context of the streamlining of Fund structural conditionality. A particular focus is the shift from privatization-related more...

Author/Editor: J E J De Vrijer, Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, Julian Berengaut, Bogdan Lissovolik, Mark Lewis.

Release Date:May, 2002

After a long period of steep decline which followed the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's economy rebounded in 2000, and the recovery accelerated in 2001. The paper examines the timing and the more...