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    The effects of regime-switching uncertainty on irreversible investment decisions

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1996
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    Transient seasonal and chronic poverty of peasants : evidence from Rwanda

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices,  for different poverty line, poverty indicators, equivalence scale, and with and without the corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worse poverty crises occur after the dry season at the end of the year.
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    Investment in Africa's manufacturing sector : a four country panel data analysis

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Firm-level data for the manufacturing sector in Africa, presented in this paper, shows very low levels of investment. A positive effect from profits onto investment is identified in a flexible accelerator specification of the investment function controlling for firm fixed effects. There is evidence that this effect is confined to smaller firms.
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    Real wages and the demand for skilled and unskilled male labour in Ghana's manufacturing sector : 1991-1995

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    Real wage rates in Ghana have fallen substantially over the last twenty years. In this paper survey data for the years 1991-1996 is used to assess whether this fall has continued in the 1990s.
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    Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns to labour in the informal sector is another specific characteristic of labour market dualism in LDCs.
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    Determinants of the real exchange rate in South Africa

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997
    The real exchange rate is a key policy variable in South Africa's open economy. A cointegration framework is used with single equation equilibrium correction models to investigate the short-run and long-run equilibrium determinants of the quarterly real exchange rate, 1970:1–1995:1.
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    Does "getting prices right" work? : micro evidence from Ghana

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995
    The question posed in this paper is whether structural adjustment programs have had the consequences policy intended and theory predicts. It uses evidence from a micro survey of manufacturing firms in Ghana to assess whether policy has effected an expansion of the exportable sector within manufacturing, the growth of small firms and an increase in exports and investment.
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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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