 | Can Statistical Capacity Building Help Reduce Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries? Author/Editor: Sampawende J Tapsoba, Robert C York, Neree C G M Noumon. Release Date:November, 2016 Few papers have attempted to assess the role of “capacity,” especially in the area of
macroeconomic statistics. Consequently, we make an attempt to advance this literature
through the more...
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 | Boom, Bust, or Prosperity? Managing Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth Author/Editor: Charlotte J Lundgren, Alun H Thomas, Robert C York. Release Date:August, 2013 Sizeable natural resource endowments and potentially large financial inflows from their extraction provide an unparalleled opportunity for economic growth and development in a growing number of more...
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 | The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policies in the CEMAC Region Author/Editor: Gaston K. Mpatswe, Sampawende J.-A. Tapsoba, Robert C. York. Release Date:August, 2011 This paper examines fiscal cyclicality in the CEMAC region during 1980-2008. The issue has attracted very little empirical interest but is important if fiscal policies are to play a role in more...
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 | External Sustainability of Oil-Producing Sub-Saharan African Countries Author/Editor: Robert C. York, Misa Takebe. Release Date:August, 2011 In the extensive empirical work carried out across the IMF on oil-producing sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, the notion of sustainability is often directed toward fiscal policies, and, in more...
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 | Improving Surveillance Across the CEMAC Region Author/Editor: Plamen Iossifov, Misa Takebe, Zaijin Zhan, Noriaki Kinoshita, Robert C. York. Release Date:November, 2009 In this paper, we consider the design of the surveillance, and, in particular, the fiscal criteria in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) with the view to ensuring they are more...
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 | Fiscal Vulnerability and Sustainability in Oil-Producing Sub-Saharan African Countries Author/Editor: Zaijin Zhan, Robert C. York. Release Date:August, 2009 Over many years rises and fall of world oil prices have been repeatedly reflected in the boom-bust cycles in oil-exporting countries the world over. The recent spectacular rise and equally more...
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