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    Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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    The Asian crisis and Human Development

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1988
    Paper aims to analyse the nature of pro-Human Development adjustment in the five countries seriously affected by the crisis: Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The effects of the crisis on Human Development depend critically on macro-economic developments.
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    Domestic Causes of Currency Crises: Policy Lessons for Crisis Avoidance

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998
    Focusses on those countries with excellent macroeconomic fundamentals that recently turned from financial-market darlings to financial-crisis victims within months: Chile 1982, Mexico 1994 and now the five Asian victims.
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    The East Asian Financial Crisis : A Year Later

    East Asia Crisis Workshop, IDS, 1998
    Purpose of this paper is to analyze the causes and consequences of the East Asian financial crisis with the view to discovering whether intrinsic instabilities in the international capital markets helped set it in motion and also whether they deepened the crisis, particularly in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,and Korea.
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    The Measurement of Dynamic Poverty with Geographical and Intertemporal Price Variability: Evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Little attention has been devoted to the effects of absolute and relative prices variability at local and seasonal levels, for the measurement of living standards in LDCs. In particular, it is not known if a substantial share of welfare or poverty indicators may be the consequence of price differences rather than of differences in living standards across households and seasons.
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    The political economy of ethnicity

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Paper investigates the effects of ethnic diversity on economic performance and the risk of violent conflict. Diversity has various detrimental microeconomic effects, tending to reduce public sector performance, increase patronage, and lower the level of trust among individuals. However, whether diversity adversely affects overall economic growth depends upon the political environment.
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    Policy Rules and Bidding Behaviour in the Ethiopian Foreign Exchange Auction

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    Ethiopia adopted a repeated Dutch auction for foreign exchange in May, 1993. Various African countries with rudimentary financial systems and thin foreign exchange markets have successfully employed auctions in transition from centralised, controlled systems to decentralised interbank markets. This paper characterises the rules, regime shifts and auction outcomes in Ethiopia.
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    Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
    In this paper two sets of issues are addressed using panel data from the manufacturing sector of five African countries. First, how high are the returns to human relative to physical capital. Second, what is the relative importance of technology and endowments of human and physical capital in determining differences in earnings and productivity across the countries.
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    Universal Postal Union (UPU) Postal Statistics

    Universal Postal Union, 1999
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    Measures of Participation in the Digital Techno-structure: Internet Access

    Science and Technology Policy Research, Sussex, 1998
    Paper offers a conceptual alternative to current survey measures of digital participation. Current measures (whether for home or work) dwell on physical access and the mere presence of digital appliances in people's lives. Almost nothing is known about variations in skills and use.

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