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Microcredit in transitional economies
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999As a handbook for new microcredit programme managers, this report summarises the key building blocks of programme design and current experiences in efficient programme operations.DocumentExchange rate regimes and the expectations hypothesis of the term structure
Bank for International Settlements, 1999This paper uses weekly data on short-term eurorates for ten countries for the period 1979-96 to document that the ability of the expectations hypothesis (EH) to account for movements in the term structure is greater, and that short- term interest rates are more predictable, under fixed than under floating exchange rates.DocumentStriving for international competitiveness : lessons from electronics for developing countries : synthesis of findings from the research project
OECD Development Centre, 1993Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales and exports, innovative capacity, and spin-off potential for related services.DocumentOptimal pegs for Asian currencies
Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 1997It has been evidenced that the US dollar is prominent in the exchange rate regimes of Asian countries.DocumentShort-Term Capital Flows, The Real Economy and Income Distribution in Developing Countries
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997The volatility of short-term capital flows (or ‘capital surges') is now recognized as a major problem for macroeconomic management in developing countries; but the consequences for the ‘real' economy - that is, the behaviour of government, firms and households which subsequently translates into investment, growth, employment and welfare - is less well understood.DocumentCyclical fluctuations in Brazil's real exchange rate : the role of domestic and external factors
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997The paper examines the links between capital inflows and the real exchange rate in Brazil. The first part presents the analytical background. The second part estimates a vector autoregression model linking capital inflows, the interest rate differential, government spending, money-base velocity, and the temporary component of the real exchange rate, calculated with the Beveridge-Nelson technique.DocumentThe CFA franc zone and the EMU
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997The prospective shift of the peg of the CFA franc from the French franc to the euro raises a number of questions. Will this change require simply a decision by the CFA franc countries themselves together with France, or will it involve the other members of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)?DocumentCapital flows to Brazil : the endogeneity of capital controls
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997This paper investigates the determinants of capital flows to Brazil and constructs an index of capital controls that includes restrictions on both outflows and inflows.