Exchange rates and currency
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- The efficient way to intervene in the foreign exchange market
- ( K. Basu / Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development , 2008)
- Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money often backing this ...
- Views on the current financial crisis from the global South
- ( Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2008)
- The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of...
- Currency revaluation benefits and dangers
- ( A. Counts / Grameen Foundation USA , 2008)
- Over the past four years there has been debate about undervaluation of the RMB (the Chinese currency) by Chinese authorities which was pegged to the US$ at a rate of 8.28 since 1995. Strong pressure c...
- The problems caused by unstable exchange rates
- ( K. Hayakawa;F. Kimura / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo , 2008)
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This paper, based on the East Asia context, examines the consequences of the volatility of exchange rates for the development of international trade and foreign direct investments. It analyses the ...
- Exchange rate and trade reform interplay
- ( J. Levin;M. Olin / Orebro University , 2008)
- This paper is a 2-part document which examines the interplay between trade and exchange rate. It also looks at the impacts of trade reforms such as trade policies on employment and poverty in Tanzania...
- Exchange rate fluctuations more important to tackle than inflation
- ( T. McKinley / Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS , 2008)
- As only the second central bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bank of Ghana has adopted an inflation-targeting regime. This paper argues that this step is wrong and comes at a bad time as: ...
- Negotiating multilateral responses towards undervalued exchange rates and SWFs at the WTO
- ( A Mattoo;A Subramanian / Peterson Institute for International Economics , 2008)
- Undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) require a multilateral response. However, due to inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not ...
- Unilateral basket peg offers the highest regime gains for East Asian countries
- ( P. Wilson / National University of Singapore, Department of Economics , 2007)
- During the Asian financial crisis, unilateral exchange rate regimes did not cope very well with massive capital inflows. Hard pegs or free floating regimes proved to be either too risky or too rigid. ...
- Managed float regimes with little sterilisation deal best with aid surges
- ( C. Adam;E. Buffie;S. O'Connell / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2007)
- Highly persistent shocks to aid flows such as HIPC or MDG-related increases in net flows have beneficial long-run effects. However, they produce dramatic macroeconomic management problems in the short...
- Successful policies bringing economic growth and poverty reduction in Argentina
- ( L. Sandoval;M. Weisbrot / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington , 2007)
- Argentina has recovered quickly from a record sovereign debt default and financial collapse in December 2001. The authors argue that this was due to a shift in government policy after IMF promoted aus...
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