Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Sharmini Coorey.

Release Date:August, 2012

Despite its vast oil wealth, central Africa still struggles to sustain strong, inclusive economic growth and to generate sufficient employment opportunities, particularly for its fast-growing youth more...

Author/Editor: Jens R Clausen, Sharmini Coorey, Bakar Ould-Abdallah, Sònia Muñoz, Norbert Funke.

Release Date:April, 2007

Zimbabwe has currently the highest rate of inflation in the world (an annual rate of 1,730 percent in February, 2007). The high rates of inflation have contributed to the contraction of the economy, more...

Author/Editor: Sharmini Coorey, Mauro Mecagni, Erik Offerdal.

Release Date:December, 1996

In light of the persistence of moderate inflation in many transition economies, this paper analyzes whether inflation resulted from insufficiently tight financial policies and wage pressures or from more...

Author/Editor: Kalpana Kochhar, Erik Offerdal, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni, Jianping Zhou, Balázs Horváth, David John Goldsbrough, Sharmini Coorey.

Release Date:August, 1996

This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 more...

Author/Editor: Sharmini Coorey.

Release Date:December, 1991

This paper examines the factors which influence the behavior of real interest rates in the United States over the long run. Data on real and nominal returns to bonds and equities are tested for unit more...