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    Argentina’s economic recovery policy choices and implications

    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 austerity had led to large scale protests driving the previous government from office.
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    An empirical analysis of East Asia’s pre-crisis daily exchange rates

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    The exchange rate peg to the United States dollar is widely believed to have been a major cause of the Asian financial crisis of 1997. This paper examines the actual behaviour of pre-crisis exchange rates in the region.
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    Financial exchange rates and international currency exposures

    Institute for International Integration Studies, Ireland, 2007
    This paper aims to improve the empirical understanding of the international financial implications of currency movements. The analysis shows that trade-weighted exchange rate indices are an inadequate guide in understanding the wealth effects of currency movements.
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    The macroeconomic implications of MDG-based strategies in sub-Saharan Africa

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    An alternative macroeconomic framework oriented towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa is known and feasible. Currently, the effects of neoliberal reforms have been counter-productive with non-intervention leading to increased volatility of nominal exchange rates.
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    On the welfare benefits of an international currency

    International Monetary Fund, 2007
    This paper presents a novel model-based approach in assessing the welfare benefits associated with the international use of a country's currency. It looks at equilibria in an open-economy framework where agents meet and trade with other agents domestically and internationally.
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    Expanding decent employment in Kenya: the role of monetary policy, inflation control, and the exchange rate

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This paper examines the current Kenyan monetary regime and evaluates the extent to which it is able to promote sustainable economic development that significantly expands decent employment opportunities.
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    Gender bias and central bank policy: employment and inflation reduction

    The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2006
    Central banks in developing countries are increasingly turning to maintaining a low inflation rate as the central target of monetary policy, without much consideration for how these policies impact the real economy – outcomes like employment, investment and economic growth.
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    Beauty queens and wallflowers: currency unions in the Middle East and Central Asia

    International Monetary Fund, 2006
    Against the background of the theory of optimum currency areas, this paper analyses possible scenarios for establishing a currency union (CU) in the Middle East and Central Asia region.The paper outlines the theory of optimum currency areas and provides an overview of recent empirical findings on the benefits and cost of membership.Through statistical analysis based on countries’ GDP, growth
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    Why do migrants return to poor countries? Evidence from Philippine migrants’ responses to exchange rate shocks

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006
    Economic models of migration behaviour have sought to explain why migrants might return to a poorer home country. Models suggest that some migrants are motivated by the desire to earn more over their lifetime in the host country, while others aim only to earn a ‘target’ amount before returning home.
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    Real exchange rate and international reserves in the era of growing financial and trade integration

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006
    Volatility in the exchange rate can reduce growth for countries with relatively low levels of financial development. Exchange rates in developing country economies can be particularly vulnerable to economic shocks from rapid falls in the terms of trade (the price of a country’s exports relative to its imports) and from changes in short- and long-term flows of capital into the economy.

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