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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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  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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  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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  Export growth and the exchange rate [in China]

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998

  Since the onset of the Asian financial crisis in July 1997, China’s export growth has become a focus of many economic observers. The health of the export sector has two important implications: one for China’s overall economic growth and the other for the yuan exchange rate. The pace of economic growth has further political as well as economic implications.
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  Appropriate exchange rate regime in developing countries: the case of Korea

  Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2000

  The choice of exchange rate regime in developing countries carries critical importance to their self-protection from speculative attacks and currency crises, as well as achievement of long-term economic growth. Deep integration of developing countries to the global economy makes it difficult to keep the intermediate regime between the two polar solutions.
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  Liberalising China's capital account: lessons drawn from Thailand's experience

  East Asian Regional Network, Global Development Network, 2000

  This article explores how China might choose to liberalise its capital account. The article emphasises the importance of nuanced and careful removal of capital restriction, allowing for quicker/radical removal of restrictions in some cases and slower/gradual removal in other cases.
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  Implications of the currency crisis for exchange rate arrangements in emerging East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article emphasises that more effort should be made to develop a framework for international monetary coordination, not only to maintain stable exchange rates among the U.S.
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  Proposed strategy for a regional exchange rate arrangement in post-crisis East Asia

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  This article suggests that a coordinated action by East Asian countries to stabilize their currencies against a common basket of major currencies (broadly representative of their average structure of trade and foreign direct investment) would help stabilize both intra-regional exchange rates and effective exchange rates-in a way consistent with the medium-term objective of promoting trade, investm
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  Economic policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements

  Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001

  This article explores the disagreements which surround debates on poverty. It discusses the gulf between how officials and NGOs understand poverty.
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  The European Single Currency and MENA’s manufactured export to Europe

  FEMISE, 2000

  This paper investigates the optimal exchange rate policy for MENA (Middle East and North African) countries in order to foster their manufactured exports towards Euroland.The exchange rate policy is captured through three different indicators:the effect of real effective exchange rate changesthe effect of volatilitythe effect of misalignmentThis investigation is conducte

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